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Re:Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data ... by zeroname on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:33AM (#18369894)
I understand the contention, but I don't think it's all that poor of a wording. In the end, who has more influence on the behavior of a neural network: The guy who wrote maybe a few dozen lines setting up its architecture, or the people who labeled the training data?

You should at least try to come up with an alternative headline that conveys to the average reader what is happening here, because "labeling data for machine learning" is not something that works either.

Re:Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data ... by nl on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:54AM (#18370157)
You should at least try to come up with an alternative headline that conveys to the average reader what is happening here, because "labeling data for machine learning" is not something that works either.

"Poor Kenyans are training A.I. for big tech"

Re:Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data ... by zeroname on Saturday November 03, 2018 @04:52PM (#18372418)
Not bad, but the "Poor Kenyans" part sounds too belittling.
Re:Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data ... by nl on Saturday November 03, 2018 @07:12PM (#18373009)
I agree somewhat, but I did take that directly from the current title.
Re:Tech companies pay poor Kenyans to produce training data ... by ummonk on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:09PM (#18372502)
The current hn title looks fine to me.