the rogue feminist

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

It was actually said best by a Hungarian comic, I'm paraphrasing a bit: If your house is on fire, you can't be like 'well that's not the fireman I imagined'.

I know it's been said a thousand times before, I know everybody is raging against having to vote for a less than ideal candidate, but today has proven that it fucking works. It's the only thing that works. And if the new guy is just a step closer to what you want? That's a fucking win. That's a fucking step in the right direction.

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I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just refusing to pretend that his past of living as a woman/girl in a patriarchal society didn't exist?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just refusing to be treated like garbage by ppl who claim that their trauma justifies them in treating ppl horribly?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just talking about how ppl still treat/see him as a woman even after coming out/transition?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just unwilling to pretend that he has all the same privileges as a cis man of the same ethnicity and class?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just talking ab the life he is actually living?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or he just wants biological children?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just enjoying vaginal sex?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or he just doesn't want to model his presentation after the post basic of cishet men?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just alternative in one way or another?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just also non-binary?

is that trans guy really "not wanting to be a man" ? or is he just feminine or flamboyant?

Wambalo and other digital workers spent eight hours a day in front of a screen studying photos and videos, drawing boxes around objects and labeling them, teaching AI algorithms to recognize them. Human labelers tag cars and pedestrians to teach autonomous vehicles not to hit them. Humans circle abnormalities in CTs, MRIs and X-rays to teach AI to recognize diseases. Even as AI gets smarter, humans in the loop will always be needed because there will always be new devices and inventions that'll need labeling.

 Humans in the loop are found not only in Kenya, but also in India, the Philippines and Venezuela. They're often countries with low wages but large populations — well educated, but unemployed.

The pay for humans in the loop is $1.50-2 an hour.  "And that is gross, before tax," Wambalo said.  Wambalo, Nathan Nkunzimana and Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan were employed by SAMA, an American outsourcing company that hired for Meta and OpenAI. SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

It's destroying the environment. It's taking advantage of people who're desperate. It's traumatizing them for dollars an hour--if they're lucky and they aren't denied their pay for no reason. I think about this a lot, that these people were made to look at awful and disgusting and illegal things for the sake of training these stupid AI.

"I looked at people being slaughtered," Wambalo said. "People engaging in sexual activity with animals. People abusing children physically, sexually. People committing suicide." Berhane Gebrekidan thought she'd been hired for a translation job, but she said what she ended up doing was reviewing content featuring dismembered bodies and drone attack victims. 

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SAMA says mental health counseling was provided by "fully-licensed professionals." Workers say it was woefully inadequate.

It's just absurd and disgusting and infuriating. Yes the good applications are worth humans working on. It's not a bad thing--if the people employed to do the work are compensated appropriately and cared for. But so many of the uses are just unnecessary.