Neal Freiman
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 Jun
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These cleaners will be wearing cameras mounted on their heads to record everything that they're doing.
Shift, after all, is a startup that gathers user generated videos and sells that to AI companies needing that data to train robots.
It's a booming industry.
Startups and large companies like Uber are now getting into the business of collecting video training data because while large language models like ChatGPT get trained on internet text, that kind of database just doesn't exist for video needed to train physical robots.
Some estimate that robotics companies will shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to get their hands on third-party training data, causing a gold rush for videos of people doing menial tasks.
And that's led to a new type of gig work, side hustlers who strap on a camera and record themselves doing typical human activities so that one day robots will be able to as well.
Toby, you're booking your free cleaning.
God knows your apartment needs it.
Yeah, one of the big problems for these companies is fraud detection.
That's what the CEO told Wired.
That is the number one thing that he spends time on is people upload so many of these videos and so many of them are just unusable.
They're either copyrighted or they're too blurry or they're downloaded from the Internet, things like that.
So one of the companies called Kled just pulled out of Nigeria because 95 percent of all the video uploads were
were dupes or fraud.
So this is one of the main things that they're dealing with.
And then there's the question, not of just some compensation, but the ethical, moral situation going on here, where you're basically training a robot to do something that humans were originally designed to do.
And maybe you're like, oh, the chores, that doesn't matter.
But we've also seen this in the workplace as well, with Facebook saying to their employees that we're going to be recording everything that you're doing on your computer.
We're watching how you use dropdown menus, how you navigate the desktop, because one day we might automate your job.
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