AI hype is just going to turn out to be the modern day mechanical turk scam.

The Washington Post – Google’s weird AI answers hint at a fundamental problem Analysis by Will Oremus May 29, 2024

Narayanan said the company’s “easiest way out of this mess” might be to pay human fact-checkers for millions of the most common search queries. “Essentially, Google would become a content farm masquerading as a search engine, laundering low-wage human labor with the imprimatur of AI.”

I had a dream of soylent chatbots made out of people. Maybe the chatbots aren’t made out of human bodies or even people toiling away in some scam center, but the way this sausage is made, and served, is nevertheless going to sour everyone eventually. Chloe Humbert Mar 16, 2024

Lying AI should not be doing the people’s business or science. Lives are at stake and the U.S. government and scientific scholars are buying into tech hype boondoggles. Is it corruption, incompetence, or sabotage? Chloe Humbert Mar 22, 2024

Mechanical Turk hoax - image is drawing of the mechanical turk with a person hidden inside the machine to operate it. Image credit: Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu. 1789. Ueber Den Schachspieler Des Herrn Von Kempelen Und Dessen Nachbildung. Leipzig [u.a.]: Breitkopf.
Mechanical Turk hoax – image is drawing of the mechanical turk with a person hidden inside the machine to operate it. Image credit: Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu. 1789. Ueber Den Schachspieler Des Herrn Von Kempelen Und Dessen Nachbildung. Leipzig [u.a.]: Breitkopf.
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