Feeding the Machine introduces readers to the content moderators, data annotators and voice artists behind what appear to the end-user to just be “AI.”
Reviewer Katherine Seaton finds it eminently readable, but with a hard-to-hear message about the hidden human costs of the AI economy.
In the introduction, a content moderator located in Africa, who spends her entire working day watching video content so that she can correctly label the severity of its horror to protect social media feeds, is featured. … The idea that artificial intelligence consists of computers trawling real or synthetic data, learning as they go, is illusory.
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