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Wired quoted Mark Riedl on methods laborers are training AI to keep ads off YouTube videos. “It perpetuates an attitude that crowd workers are machines when instead we need to recognize that crowd workers are humans, for whom we have an ethical and moral responsibility to design tasks that recognize the dignity of the worker,” he says.
Read more here: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/zerochaos-google-ads-quality-raters/