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"For this Google worker, the biggest concern with AI training is the feedback given to AI models by raters like him. “After having seen how bad the data is that goes into supposedly training the model, I knew there was absolutely no way it could ever be trained correctly like that,” he said. He used the term “garbage in, garbage out”, a principle in computer programming which explains that if you feed bad or incomplete data into a technical system, then the output would also have the same flaws.

The rater avoids using generative AI and has also “advised every family member and friend of mine to not buy newer phones that have AI integrated in them, to resist automatic updates if possible that add AI integration, and to not tell AI anything personal”, he said."

“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika, who studies the labor behind AI at the Distributed AI Research Institute, about people who work behind the scenes. “In my experience it’s always people who don’t understand AI who are enchanted by it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away

A long way away.