FYI. My friend - who is an engineering manager at GitHub in the "AI" space - saw my post and reached out to their internal team fighting with Spam. I hope they will be able to do something about it as well.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote: > > Given what I read about the company, they will most likely ignore you. > Some people think the company is a scam, and they seem to engage in > unethical business practices. > > Yeah, but it absolutely does not mean we should give up and do nothing. > > Hopefully that will give at least some people a pause when they apply for > Outlier.ai jobs. There are a few people there who seem to have a "real-ish" > history of contribution and they actually came back after our reaction and > apologised as they were tricked into doing it by the instructions from > Outlier. > > So at least we can make rounds on awareness of the whole situation. That's > already something. Even if they will shrug seeing all the reaction (which > is amazing - I did not know we have so many people caring about > maintainers). > > And hopefully also GitHub (I have a few friends from GitHub reacting to > it) will take notice and will make it harder for "new" people and maybe > even detect such spam on their own. Eventually we are - and this is just a > beginning - in an arm's race where we will have to employ AI to battle the > AI created by "roque" players - it's inevitable. It will happen, absolutely > no doubts about it. So we have to strengthen our efforts to make people > aware of those dangers and prepare to react for them. > > We already (and few other Apache projects) work with DoSu - and they are > great AI "open-source friendly" company - for quite a few months their AI > is classifying our issues and putting the right labels on them (and they do > a great job on that) - so it's only a matter of their focus (and I spoke to > the Devin - the creator of DoSu) on them being able to analyse those issues > and maybe even automatically marking them as "AI spam". In fact - their > algorithms already also learn from us marking the issues with the "AI spam" > label. and if they enable this label and we have enough cases, their AI > will likely automatically help with that "AI spam" to be automatically set. > > So ... I think being active, sharing things like that, learning and > thinking how to battle those cases is something we all should learn how to > do. It will be needed. This is just a canary in the mine. > > J. > > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Given what I read about the company, they will most likely ignore you. >> Some people think the company is a scam, and they seem to engage in >> unethical business practices. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Justin >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@airflow.apache.org >> >>
