Inside Google's ads quality rater program, where contractors rush to flag and label inappropriate YouTube content for $15 per hour, while training Google's AI
Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube. They look for violence in videos. Tweets: @ndiblasio , @kimmaicutler , and @dinoj1 . Thanks: @gfififi Tweets: Natalie DiBlasio / @ndiblasio : These workers watch horrifying, disturbing YouTube videos all day to flag what's inappropriate. It's breaking them. http://www.wired.com/... Kim-Mai Cutler / @kimmaicutler : “Big companies across the tech industry employ temporary workers to participate in repetitive tasks meant to train AI systems.” http://twitter.com/... Dean Jayson / @dinoj1 : “AI” trained by humans today will shape our experiences for many years to come. What sort of biases will be built into the tech of tomorrow? http://twitter.com/... Thanks: @gfififi