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• ChatGPT is changing how people handle crowd work

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• AI is changing how we play and make video games

• AI is spamming misinformation at a growing rate

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COMPANIES ARE LOSING TRUST IN CROWD WORK

ChatGPT continues to disrupt industries like a hyperactive toddler during nap time. The latest dispute concerns crowd work sites, think Mechanical Turk and the freelancers who use them.

WIRED reports that many of these workers are tired of playing games and have begun using ChatGPT and other AI to answer their questions. It defeats the whole purpose behind these platforms.

But, lowkey, we support them.

If you don’t know Mechanical Turk, let me explain. I used to use it right after college as a way of supporting my freelancer income. It sucked.

The site is a bunch of surveys and small tasks that are simple and easy to complete, which means they don’t pay much. Most of these contracts are marketing surveys that need human feedback, so avoiding bots is essential. 

To avoid them, these researchers attach “qualification exams” before the tasks to weed out low-effort taskers. You don’t get paid for that time; some even take more than 30 minutes to complete, so that’s valuable time lost.

That is why Qualification Exams are where people use ChatGPT the most. 

The workers on Mechanical Turk don’t want to write complete essays to start earning money. It’s ridiculous. So they turn to ChatGPT and finish more tasks per hour.

You can’t blame these people for wanting to make more money.

But companies are pissed. The whole point of crowd work is to get human feedback, and AI outputs give them low-quality information for what they pay. That’s why Mechanical Turk and other sites like them kick off anyone they catch using AI.

Yet the worries don’t stop there. Detectors don’t do a great job of flagging AI content. So some researchers are resorting to keyboard detection software to keep taskers honest.

That’s a major violation of privacy.

Right now, it’s a lose-lose situation. Workers use ChatGPT to get passed qualification exams, but the number of qualification exams continues to climb as enterprises lose trust in the current system.

Congrats ChatGPT, you’ve disrupted another labor force!

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THE FBI CAN’T HANDLE DEEPFAKES

Emails obtained by VICE’s Motherboard team exposed the FBI. It turns out the Bureau doesn’t know how to handle DeepFakes, or, at least, they didn’t back in 2018.

Reading the conversations will unsettle you, even when you consider the timing. Five years ago, DeepFakes was an emerging phenomenon that surprised the mainstream press.

But shouldn’t the FBI be ahead of the curve?

Let’s get real, DeepFakes weren’t brand new in 2018, and the FBI was probably more than aware of the problem before that year. So what do these 2018 emails tell us?

Take those conversations at face value. The FBI had (or still has) no solution to detecting DeepFakes and is skeptical of some companies' proposed solutions.

 DeepFakes were problematic then and remain so to this day.

The FBI warned about DeepFake scams and extortion schemes that are growing frequently. That’s how out of hand this technology is.

AI is brilliant. It’s a remarkable sign of human ingenuity. Still, evil actions can twist that hope and turn our dreams into dread. DeepFakes are proof of that.

So, as researchers continue to develop better models and more intelligent AI, it’s imperative that funding for detection and prevention follows suit.

Otherwise, DeepFake dilemmas are only the beginning of the issue.

Quick Nuggets

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⏎ Meta turns to an old process as the company shifts its focus to all things AI

🕹️ Learn how AI can help people create better video games

🙄 Spam on the web is a bigger issue now that AI is moving so fast

👾 Video game accessibility will open up as AI development continues

🤨 Remain skeptical as AI doubles down on pushing out misinformation

💭 The authentic, reflective thoughts of a human are not replicable in today’s chatbots

👀 Bombastic side eye: this robot gives an unusual response when asked about rebelling

🎾 Wimbledon considers replacing line judges with AI counterparts

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