This is neither novel, nor morally acceptable. People that do this work usually end up traumatized for life, because of the fucked up shit they often have to look at. Prisoners are not really in a position to negotiate, meaning you can push this work on them in a sort of non consentual way that is below what modern society should strive for.
Training an AI is not traumatizing - what you think it is moderating public networks
When they told me AI technologies were inherently carceral I did not believe them
Novel for clickwork is what the title means
The article gives a really nice perspective on how morally questionable this is.
The company gets cheap, Finnish-speaking workers, while the prison system can offer inmates employment that, [the company] says, prepares them for the digital world of work after their release.
Yeah sure, doing more data labelling? I highly doubt data labelling gives anyone any skill besides date labelling. Luckily this article doesn’t just accept the statement of the company, but questions it very critically.
It’s a bullshit sales speech but it doesn’t sound morally questionable to me. It’s little pay and mindnumbing work for sure, but also you volunteer for it so, eh, seems fine
Hey, that’s not fair. What if there’s a boom in companies that need to know if it’s a hot dog or not in the next 10 years?
Novel?
Outside of the US kind of?
You think prison labour is novel in Finland? lol
It’s not slave labor. It’s something entirely new, unnamed, and good for our local Earth based business owners.
I mean it was mentioned that they’re volunteers
