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I am ethically and morally opposed to gen AI as a concept. As far as the breaking point, let me explain. I've been a machinist for ~18 years. It's been really bad for the last 9 years and I've more or less had to live off of savings from the good years (those savings are basically gone).

I've just recently gotten legitimate job offers for ~$125 an hour remote because I own a CNC. The catch is that I have to record all of the CAM programming and machine time in order to train an AI to replace potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This fucking sucks. I'd love to sit on my ass forever at 43, but I absolutely fucking hate the potential that I could bring that would crush the working class and elevate the owning class.

I wish it wasn't this hard, because I really do believe in socialism and have labored hard for a long time to make it happen - but there's a chance I can put everything I have into true anarchism cause and make a legitimate difference.

Please help.

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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They have multiple people annotating the same video. They look for discrepancies in how data is annotated between people. Probably most often it's annotator error. It also allows them to spot actual oddities that maybe only one person noticed. There's a lot of redundancies. I think some might have a conception of AI-bros recklessly feed raw data into LLMs and sell people the garbage-out machine. It's not that at all. The source content and the written records are validated. It goes through refinement again and again to check. Who knows how many times. I've gotten by own annotations back at much later stages for further verification. That comes after even more people have looked at it and done whatever their assignment was with the data.

This inherently has nothing to do with AI. It's mass data harvesting and refinement. It's bigger than LLMs. Whatever technologies supersede LLMs will be fed these datasets. If they do it right once, they'll never need you or any professional ever again regardless of whether LLMs ultimately flop. They won't need you for the next iteration of AI technology. In theory of course.

The business here isn't AI. It's what big tech has always been after. Data.