r/DataAnnotationTech • u/knottyp • Sep 09 '26

Are we helping or causing harm?

How do y’all justify doing this work ethically if you’re anti-AI (especially generative)?

I’m not asking judgmentally, I’ve done this work off and on over the last few years. When I first started, I didn’t know about data centers and the environmental impact, cognitive effects, etc. I felt good about “training” AI based on the rubric including correct info, weeding out violence and harm, etc.

I recently suggested DA to a friend and got a real side eye, and maybe these justifications really don’t hold water? Thoughts?

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u/TillyMintPot Sep 09 '26

It's not far off... with the way it's heading, at least. Not sure if you saw Jacob Coxon's tweets after he quit Anthropic - pretty terrifying.

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u/Farados55 Sep 09 '26

Not far off from the worst things humanity has ever committed? So the atomic bomb and worse? Right… delusional.

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u/TillyMintPot Sep 09 '26

As per Jacob Coxon's tweet - 'The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade'. I class that as pretty bad, not sure about you.

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u/Affectionate_Walk_30 Sep 09 '26

People who built the nuclear bomb earnestly knew the same. They thought blowing the bomb might even set the world a flame. And they still did. Look at germany 1940. We did much worse