Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/06/data-labelers.html

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What prevents these contractors from pilfering this and the contact details before ing off to a new job in the so-called “Microsoft Support” call centres?

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Wonderful - was just reading on Krebs about how Wipro had a breach recently::
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/wipro-intruders-targeted-other-major-it-firms/

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How are they at detecting pre-crime?

That AI is going to have some interesting biases baked in.

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Great, so on top of everything, it has poor workers training their machine replacements. They must have great morale (and therefore respect for the sanctity of their work…)

hey look at that! They’re doing something horrible, but at least for a good…

ok yeah, that checks out.

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I’m sure that everyone involved is of the highest moral fibre and nothing whatsoever will go wrong.

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The answer is…nothing. Nothing is the answer.

Fucking Wipro. They’re everything that’s wrong with outsourced IT. Every experience I’ve had with them directly or heard about has been bad. Who’s still paying these idiots to do anything?

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