Alice* says she feels “not in the slightest” guilty about using ChatGPT to complete training tasks, saying it is easy to get away with as long as you instruct chatbots to avoid the usual telltale signs of AI output, like a preponderance of em-dashes. “It’s only the sloppiest of users that get caught,” she says. “Anyone with a modicum of awareness around AI hallmarks can tell their output not to use them, and at that point what are you going to do?”
Another worker, Bob*, worked for a training platform called Outlier. Initially, he was tasked with AI training, which he says he illicitly used AI for, and was then promoted to a leadership role where part of his job was to catch others doing the same thing.
Don’t worry, the tech bros sold the gullible execs on no more employees, just profits and so our entire economy is now based on completely unrealistic profit assumptions and circular lending dependencies that will collapse when the bubble inevitably bursts. Somehow this will harm the poor the most.
Maybe we can kick the can down the road so biosphere collapse gets us first.