" #AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
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" #AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots."
"Michael Geoffrey Asia [...] the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.
“It required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” [..]After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex.
“It got to a point where my body couldn’t function."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
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