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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)

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Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.

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[-] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago

Cool. Using slave labor to train tools to strip the best parts of humanity away from us so that AI can do creative activities like poetry and art while we're more and more stuck in a gig economy.

Cool cool cool cool.

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Starvation wages are slavery. And yes. Our techocolonial society engages at it at many levels. No. We should not be okay with it. We should do what we can do disengage from businesses that engage in it, and we should be self forgiving of ourselves when we can't. We should always be advocating for the workers, even if sometimes that means who we're advocating for is us

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Average wages in Nairobi is about $4/hr. These jobs weren't generally high quality but they weren't starvation, either.

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