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The kraken (/ˈkræ.kən/; from Norwegian: kraken, /ˈkrɑː.kən/) is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod.... It is believed that the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid, which may grow to 10.5 metres (34 ft) in length. The word "kraken" in English derives from Norwegian. According to a Norwegian dictionary, the root meaning of krake is "malformed or overgrown, crooked tree".
The Kraken tentacles are everywhere now... I received this job offer to "build and train cutting-edge AI models" into Cyber Threat Intelligence, the objective of the AI model is to eventually drain my knowledge and leave me without a job. Nothing new. The company that advertises this offer has several hundred more positions, all of them are to train AI models into several and diverse fields of knowledge, from IT trough cybersecurity, chemistry, finances, writing, cinematography, translation... oddly the page of the organization uses the logos of prestigious universities like Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Melon, Oxford among others.
In a nutshell you get paid to be slowly drain your hard earned knowledge. To follow that path of self-deprecation the organization asks for a obligatory interview with the applicant, the interviewer is AI (sounds kind of sadly cool actually).
But the real hideous, disgusting caveat is in the small letters of their Terms of Use & Privacy.
"Alignerr is a global platform for flexible AI training work. Through the Services, you may have the opportunity to participate in an AI-conducted, video-recorded interview (the “Interview”). Among other things, the Interview may help us determine if you are qualified to become a member of the Alignerr Community. You hereby grant us an unlimited, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicenseable through multiple tiers, perpetual right to use, reuse, modify, display, publish and disseminate the Interview and your name, audio, photographic, video, and other likeness of you, as well as any materials you make available for the purposes of the Interview including in each case, any portion thereof (collectively, the “Interview Materials”) for any purpose. Alignerr and its successors, licensees and assigns shall own all right, title and interest in and to the Interview and have your permission to record the Interview, download, broadcast, distribute, exhibit, evaluate, make derivative works of and otherwise fully exploit the Interview, and allow others to do all of the foregoing, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised including, without limitation, via the internet, mobile and handheld devices, all other forms of digital transmission and exhibition throughout the world in perpetuity."
That is a blood-signed contract with the devil.
I wonder if some of the grandsons of that poor bastards that sign that devil's contract, will see (50 years from now) their AI-bot-ancestors advertising with their grandfather faces and voices over and over trough history, will they still remember the day that they sold their souls, knowledge, face, voice, biometrics for $35 dlls an hour.. for PERPETUITY!!!?!
I wonder if it's something really broken here, have we slowly but inevitably summoned the crooked monster that will devour us all?
Unmistakably something has changed since I got into technology and hacking more than ten years ago.
As the scene dialogue between Captain Sparrow and Barbosa next to the Kraken goes:
B. -The problem with being the last of anything is being by there be nothing left at all.
S. -Sometimes things come back mate, we're living proof you and me.
B. -Aye but that's a game of long odds ain't it?, there's never a guarantee of coming back. Passing on that's dead certain.
S. -Summoning the Brethren
in court then it is?B. -I really hope that.
S. -That's a sad commentary in and of itself.
B. -The world used to be a bigger place.
S. - The world still the same... it's just less in it.
Gliders, hold fast and prepare. Do not gift your hard earned knowledge and go gently into the dark abyss of AI. Use it and not let it use you.
The Kraken has emerged.
Only together we will survive.
🐙☠
