Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’

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irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Too bad LLM “AI” can’t pick up the slack which is the whole reason it was still around and so active.

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- XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ironically, according to the article, the underpaid workers had actually started using it. Seems like Amazon got a taste of the future they advertised, and decided they didn’t want it themselves.
  
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  - irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, gotta keep your employees poor so they can’t afford to leave no matter how badly they’re treated.
    
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