I just need to rant somewhere. I’ve been looking for work for a long time, and so LinkedIn is part of the sites I regularly check for jobs.

Today I had a message from some asshat saying they’ve launched an AI marketplace and behold, they need my help to improve it! I could be making thousands a week detecting fringe cases that AI isn’t yet good at solving! And I could be making friends with like minded assholes I mean creative experts helping AI!

Doesn’t it sound like a dream???

The worst part is that I don’t think it was a scam. For sure one wouldn’t be making thousands per week, I’m sure that’s misleading, but the rest of the platform sounded believable enough. Which means there’s going to be plenty of “experts” flocking to it.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’m a translator, and we’ve been plagued by MT (machine translation) for years. A year ago translation jobs stopped completely and all I was offered was “Rating AI results”. I refused all of that garbage and turned temporally very poor. I went to shovel manure like a proper peasant to not have to engage with this shit. A year later translation seems to bounce back a bit, and I suspect art will do so as well. Most people can’t stand this slightly-off uncanny slop everywhere. It’s not just us artists and writers who react with almost visceral hate to this life-less soul-less crap. The hype will die down (don’t forget to diss it wherever you can in your free time!)

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      I feel for you. Translation has been under threat way, way before anything like an LLM was around.

      I remember some fifteen years ago or so, having to translate my high school qualifications in order to apply for the Australian permanent residency. I had to pay hundreds to some australian government office to do this translation, from Spanish to English. They had the audacity to ring me to ask me about a few words that “Google translate couldn’t find”. It was so infuriating on so many levels.

      Anecdotaes aside, I hope what you say turns out to be true, would love to see more investment in general favoring the arts.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    27·
    3 days ago

    I get tons of ads for these things, or days annotation.

    That “job” is just data annotation and almost definitely does not pay what they say.

    I wish you the best with your job search. It sucks out there.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzOP
      3·
      3 days ago

      Even if it paid what it says. Even if it paid double. Nope. It’s disgusting. I refuse to voluntarily hone this monster

      Also thanks for your kind wishes

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’ve worked for those. The hourly rate is real but you barely get any hours and you have to fight like dogs with other contractos to click fast enough when work becomes available.