Comment by cantalopes
6 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
6 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
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
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbo...
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...