[suckitsam]

“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human feedback, which again is just kind of tech-washing precarious human labor. It’s thousands and thousands of workers paid very little, though en masse it’s very expensive, and there’s no other way to create these systems, full stop,” she explained.

I'm suddenly curious to see man-hour comparisons between these kinds of endeavors and, say, building the Great Pyramids.