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Mar 22, 2021
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Underpaid Workers Are Being Forced to Train Biased AI on Mechanical Turk

Modern AI systems often require large datasets labeled by humans, and companies looking to leverage AI use online platforms, like Amazon's Mechanical Turk, to distribute data lableing tasks to remote workers. Such tasks can include rank…

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