Gerd Leonhard

April 2, 2023

AI Pause

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-about-sci


Real harm 2: AI tools exploit labor and shift power to companies.


The real impact of AI is likely to be subtler: AI tools will shift power away from workers and centralize it in the hands of a few companies. A prominent example is generative AI for creating art. Companies building text-to-image tools have used artists' work without compensation or credit. Another example: workers who filtered toxic content from ChatGPT's inputs and outputs were paid less than USD 2/hr.