A lot of modern training data isn’t stolen, though. There are organisations which recruit people to do their jobs normally and screen share, or provide worked-through examples of their work, and this is increasingly making up the bulk of the data that’s used to pull frontier models ahead of others on work benchmarks. People are being paid for this and do it willingly, usually with knowledge of where their labour outputs are going!
So really, the problem is a subset of workers in each field are ‘defecting’ (to use a rat term I kinda loathe). How do you create solidarity among groups of workers to prevent a small number of them from putting the others out of work? Or, if technological progress is to be necessary, how do those groups of workers politically agitate for a welfare state and good ongoing education?
The left solved this problem two hundred years ago, but I suspect EA won’t like the solution…
A lot of modern training data isn’t stolen, though. There are organisations which recruit people to do their jobs normally and screen share, or provide worked-through examples of their work, and this is increasingly making up the bulk of the data that’s used to pull frontier models ahead of others on work benchmarks. People are being paid for this and do it willingly, usually with knowledge of where their labour outputs are going!
So really, the problem is a subset of workers in each field are ‘defecting’ (to use a rat term I kinda loathe). How do you create solidarity among groups of workers to prevent a small number of them from putting the others out of work? Or, if technological progress is to be necessary, how do those groups of workers politically agitate for a welfare state and good ongoing education?
The left solved this problem two hundred years ago, but I suspect EA won’t like the solution…