Pay No Attention to the Person behind the Algorithm: A Brief History of Automatons That Were Actually People
Briefly

This phenomenon is nicknamed fauxtomation because it hides the human work and also falsely inflates the value of the automated' solution, says Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics program at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Amazon had more than 1,000 workers in India who trained the Just Walk Out AI model and manually reviewed some of its sales.
An anonymous source mentioned that as many as 700 human reviews were needed for every 1,000 customer transactions for the Just Walk Out technology.
Amazon disputes the characterization of its process and claims to have far fewer workers annotating shopping data than what has been reported.
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