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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

hommelix 5mo ago
In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.
madbkarim 5mo ago
Source? Curious to know more.
- esseph 5mo ago
  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-facebook-moderators-in-kenya-are-taking-legal-action https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-fac...
- intended 5mo ago
  > https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-workers-label-toxic-content-chatgpt-training-report-2023-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-worke... > https://www.wsj.com/tech/chatgpt-openai-content-abusive-sexually-explicit-harassment-kenya-workers-on-human-workers-cf191483 https://www.wsj.com/tech/chatgpt-openai-content-abusive-sexu... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0 > https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66514287 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66514287 > https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-used-kenyan-workers-making-dollar2-an-hour-to-filter-traumatic-content-from-chatgpt/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-used-kenyan-workers-m...
- iamflimflam1 5mo ago
  https://www.thebrink.me/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-inside-ai-hidden-human-trauma/ https://www.thebrink.me/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-inside-ai-...
iamflimflam1 5mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbo...
LazyGooze 5mo ago
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
- projektfu 5mo ago
  I wonder what Sam's club is doing because their checker is using some sort of video based pre-check and sometimes they don't need to check you at all. Still, everything is scanned ahead of time by you or the cashier. Once I did forget to scan an item and they noticed.

hommelix 5mo ago

In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.

madbkarim 5mo ago

Source? Curious to know more.

esseph 5mo ago
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-facebook-moderators-in-kenya-are-taking-legal-action https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-fac...
intended 5mo ago
> https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-workers-label-toxic-content-chatgpt-training-report-2023-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-worke... > https://www.wsj.com/tech/chatgpt-openai-content-abusive-sexually-explicit-harassment-kenya-workers-on-human-workers-cf191483 https://www.wsj.com/tech/chatgpt-openai-content-abusive-sexu... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0 > https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66514287 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-66514287 > https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-used-kenyan-workers-making-dollar2-an-hour-to-filter-traumatic-content-from-chatgpt/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-used-kenyan-workers-m...
iamflimflam1 5mo ago
https://www.thebrink.me/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-inside-ai-hidden-human-trauma/ https://www.thebrink.me/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-inside-ai-...

iamflimflam1 5mo ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbo...

LazyGooze 5mo ago

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

projektfu 5mo ago
I wonder what Sam's club is doing because their checker is using some sort of video based pre-check and sometimes they don't need to check you at all. Still, everything is scanned ahead of time by you or the cashier. Once I did forget to scan an item and they noticed.