Marmalade, a woman in her forties, is training an artificial intelligence model owned by a Finnish startup called Metroc.
She works in a Finnish prison to help it find new building projects.
Using prisoners to train AI creates uneasy parallels with the kind of low-paid and sometimes exploitive labor that has often existed downstream in technology, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, says.
In this case, however, the project has received widespread support.
For four months, Marmalade has lived in the Hämeenlinna prison.
The building is modern, with big windows.
Colorful artwork tries to enforce a sense of cheeriness on otherwise empty corridors.
Across a sterile white table in a windowless room, sits a woman described as pretty and middle-aged.
Her name is Maralade and she works three-hour shifts teaching a large language model, which is part of a search engine for building companies,
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