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    AI data workers push Congress for labor protections

    Data workers and advocacy groups just sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, demanding protections against predatory surveillance and sub-minimum wages in model training. The push arrived right before a high-profile Senate AI forum with tech executives and investors. Why it matters: The invisible workforce powering modern AI is demanding a seat at the table before regulations get set.

  2. ResearchReach 35

    AI trainers are outsourcing their jobs to AI

    A new EPFL study found that between 33% and 46% of crowd workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk are using tools like ChatGPT to complete data annotation tasks. Training AI models on AI-generated responses risks compounding hallucinations and statistical errors over time. Basically, companies paying humans to clean up training data are getting synthetic text right back.