The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models

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It’s Kenyan issue first and foremost. Lack of labour protections sucks and the fact that people fear to lose these shitty jobs is telling.

Kenya has long been a data labor hub for U.S. tech giants like Meta and OpenAI.

Also as article mentions, US companies has been doing the same thing.

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OpenAI used east Europeans. Just sayin..

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IBM has entered the chat

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This is exactly what American companies are doing though. AI is basically built on the back of slave wages

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Of course, it’s not a good thing when anyone does it.

And isn’t everything? We rely on the most exploited at the lowest levels to provide our raw resources. The whole global system is fucked.

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True that brother. I make way less than what I should be making. in the summer when I’m whored out I make $40 base. Rest of the year or internal work I’m making $26

i can go independent and charge $120+ an hour but it’s hard to get clients when the two big players will purposely go out of their way to fuck you over.

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“restofworld”. Talk about condescending.

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