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0 pointskristopolous2y ago0 comments

I was thinking what the payoff would be to pose as human for these terrible pay click jobs and then assign them to an LLM en masse. There's an arbitrage there ... it may be a good strategy.

I heard recently "click-work" works out to about $4/hr* If you could do that x50, passively, it's a fine income.

* - see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448231183... or listen to https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-october-30-2023/ ... it's a fascinating study. Terrible pay (way below minimum wage) but surprisingly high worker satisfaction. The users seem to view it as entertainment essentially categorizing it as casual gaming.

The "asshole innovator" in me wonders if one could simply make it more entertaining and forego paying the user entirely.

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hubraumhugo2y ago

Interesting. Instead of doing the click work manually, microworkers will just instruct and guide multiple GPTs.

kristopolousOP2y ago

maybe. A lot of modern clickwork is actually model training and there is a model-collapse phenomena (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493) which means that it should be banned for such work. I bet a number of clever people on the platforms are already trying to instrument AI to do the work regardless - it's pretty close to "free money" if you can pull it off and not get caught and at a spigot size where there's no real serious consequences if you do.

ishan01022y ago

Yeah this seems easy to build but would rather work on making tools that improve accessibility 10x

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