Once again #AI provides cover and incentive for human exploitation and a massive abuse of privacy.
Did you expect your Meta “AI” glasses to send videos to Nairobi, Kenya, where a group of people are forced to watch videos and annotate them without complaining, no matter how scarring the footage? Because they are. That’s how #Meta is training their models: by exploiting the Global South and massively violating your privacy.
“And regardless of the wearer’s intention, much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage. It’s a laborious and highly resource-intensive process that tech companies often gloss over when discussing the prowess of their latest AI models.”
When I say I have concerns about the ethics of today’s AI,
... Show more...Once again #AI provides cover and incentive for human exploitation and a massive abuse of privacy.
Did you expect your Meta “AI” glasses to send videos to Nairobi, Kenya, where a group of people are forced to watch videos and annotate them without complaining, no matter how scarring the footage? Because they are. That’s how #Meta is training their models: by exploiting the Global South and massively violating your privacy.
“And regardless of the wearer’s intention, much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage. It’s a laborious and highly resource-intensive process that tech companies often gloss over when discussing the prowess of their latest AI models.”
When I say I have concerns about the ethics of today’s AI, THIS SHIT is a prime example. Is this ethical? Is this ANYWHERE NEAR ethical?
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Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.
Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
