Sapien Town Hall, Hallo-Meme Contest & New Tasks

Hey there, Sapiens! :sapien_love:

Happy Friday, and I hope you'll all get to enjoy the weekend!

First of all, an announcement! Next Friday, the 31st of October, at 2:30 pm Eastern Time, join the Sapien team for an in-depth Town Hall for us to show you what we've been up to and to continue the two-way dialogue between us and you, the community members! We will set up a space for that right here, in the Discord!

Prepare your questions, concerns, and feedback!

We will also be making further changes to the Discord set up to make sure the community has a place to enjoy! This includes more regular contests, fun activities, and more focus on you.

This Week in Sapien: 🧠

The contest!
Our Hallo-Meme contest is cooking hard! We’ve seen cute. we’ve seen cursed.
Now we wanna see unholy.

Post your memes in #channel or tag our social media channels with the most cursed AI meme you can come up with. Participants can submit as many memes as they like! Submissions are open until October 30th, with the winner being announced on October 31st!
🏆 Prizes:

🥇 1st Place – 2,000 SAPIEN
🥈 2nd Place – 1,000 SAPIEN
🥉 3rd Place – 500 SAPIEN

New Tasks & Training

To prepare for more task variety, we've been expanding the ways you can prove your skills, with a new Spanish Skill Test live, as well as a task in Bengali! We will release more new tasks to scale with demand! A total of 13 tasks are available right now for your expertise, with new data to tag being added regularly!

Our Voices in the World.

Read from our Head of Product Lauren Mushro on why annotation deserves to be treated as skilled, high-value labor: Jack of All Trades, Master of None — The Data Annotation Gold Rush.

This week’s research articles have been all about the risk of Hallucination in AI.
Find out Why AI Models Hallucinate Missing Context in the first place, how bad training can compound these issues, and how easy it is to be affected by bad data quality.

Our hosted X Space this week went into a deep-dive on Base and how Sapien and our friends in the web3 space use it to build networks for a better future: Base is for Everyone - Episode 4

Catch up on all the highlights 👇
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