Sources reveal how contractors audit Bard's answers in subjects ranging from medication doses to state laws, sometimes with deadlines as short as three minutes
As algorithms take on an increasingly big share … Bluesky: Emily Gorcenski / @emily.gorcen.ski : In the United States, this is considered “a substantial improvement over most doctors.” [embedded post] Mastodon: Davey Alba / @daveyalba@mastodon.social : NEW: Internal documents shared with me show the complex instructions that Google contractors are asked to complete in minutes in order to train Google's generative AI products, like Bard. — AI experts say the workers have an “impossible job.” — https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] Twitter: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : NEW: Internal documents shared with @technology show the complex instructions that Google contractors are asked to complete in minutes in order to train Google's generative AI products, like Bard. AI experts say the workers have an “impossible job.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... @alphabetworkers : Workers across Google's AI projects are being overworked & underpaid. They are forced to moderate disturbing content without mental resources. We're organizing these workers & more because AI workers deserve fair wages, and better working conditions. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Dr. Sasha Luccioni / @sashamtl : PSA: ‘Artificial’ intelligence is just people all the way down. https://twitter.com/... @lauraedelson2 : What I find most disturbing about this reporting on Bard is that GOOG is explicitly labeling content on the basis of whether it *seems* true, as opposed to if it *is* true. If this is what they ate training for, seeming rather than being accurate, that's what they will get. https://twitter.com/... Jesse Felder / @jessefelder : ‘Ensuring chatbot responses are well-sourced and based on evidence falls to thousands of outside contractors who can make as little as $14 an hour and labor with minimal training under frenzied deadlines.’ https://www.bloomberg.com/... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Google's AI chatbot is trained by workers who say they are overwhelmed, underpaid and concerned that they're creating a bad product, sources tell @daveyalba. She got internal documents on the guidelines they have to use for quick feedback on Bard answers: https://www.bloomberg.com/...