Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
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- Krista Pawloski, an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk, had a defining moment realizing the ethical issues in AI when she almost missed a racial slur in a tweet.
- Pawloski and other AI workers have become distrustful of AI models due to their fallibility and the lack of proper training and support for workers.
- Many AI workers now discourage their friends and family from using generative AI, citing concerns over accuracy, ethics, and the potential for harm.
- AI raters highlight the problem of AI dispensing false information confidently, with studies showing an increase in misinformation from chatbots.
- Workers report that feedback on AI models is often ignored, leading to persistent errors and biases in AI outputs.
- The principle 'garbage in, garbage out' is cited as a major flaw in AI training, where poor-quality input data leads to unreliable outputs.
- AI workers emphasize the environmental impact and ethical concerns of AI, comparing the need for transparency in AI to the textile industry.
- Efforts are being made by workers like Pawloski and Hansen to educate the public and policymakers about the realities and risks of AI.