Comment by cantalopes
7 hours ago
Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd
7 hours ago
Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbo...
or the amazon store with no check-out having indians monitoring you via cameras to build your checkout bill as you out items in your shopping cart
In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.
Source? Curious to know more.
https://www.thebrink.me/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-inside-ai-...
> https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-worke...
> https://www.wsj.com/tech/chatgpt-openai-content-abusive-sexu...
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0
> https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66514287
> https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-used-kenyan-workers-m...
There's tons of articles all over Google about this, it's not exactly hidden knowledge hoarded by this HN poster.
Example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-fac...