"Krista Pawloski remembers the single defining moment that shaped her opinion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. As an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk a marketplace that allows companies to hire workers to perform tasks like entering data or matching an AI prompt with its output Pawloski spends her time moderating and assessing the quality of AI-generated text, images and videos, as well as some factchecking."
"While working from home at her dining room table, she took up a job designating tweets as racist or not. When she was presented with a tweet that read Listen to that mooncricket sing, she almost clicked on the no button before deciding to check the meaning of the word mooncricket, which, to her surprise, was a racial slur against Black Americans."
"After years of witnessing the inner workings of AI models, Pawloski decided to no longer use generative AI products personally and tells her family to steer clear of them. It's an absolute no in my house, said Pawloski, referring to how she doesn't let her teenage daughter use tools like ChatGPT."
Krista Pawloski worked on Amazon Mechanical Turk moderating and assessing AI-generated text, images, videos and performing some fact-checking. While labeling tweets she discovered the slur 'mooncricket' and realized she had nearly missed it, prompting concern about frequent unnoticed errors. The scale of potential mistakes by thousands of moderators caused distress and led her to stop personal use of generative AI. She forbids her teenage daughter from using ChatGPT and advises others to test AI on subjects they know to spot errors. Pawloski questions whether tasks on Mechanical Turk could be used to harm people. Amazon states workers may choose tasks and review details before accepting.
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