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The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ (www.wired.com)

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AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President Biden, demanding that US tech companies stop “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers.”

A typical workday for African tech contractors, the letter says, involves “watching murder and beheadings, child abuse and rape, pornography and bestiality, often for more than 8 hours a day.” Pay is often less than $2 per hour, it says, and workers frequently end up with post-traumatic stress disorder, a well-documented issue among content moderators around the world.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck! Is AI mechanical Turks all the way down?

It's a horror story that never ends is what it is.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nah, all the original data came from humans. If it was all good and happy and properly tagged correctly there'd be no intervention.

Unfortunately they scraped it from wherever in the hell they could get it from and it's not all tagged correctly.

I'm sure they use more AI to pre-grade it, but at some point a set of real eyes need to verify that something is what it's supposed to be.

This is more of a blood diamonds or fair trade coffee thing, US legislation isn't going to have anything to do with it. You need to expose the places using the data.