"Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm"
"What most people don’t realise is that roughly 80% of the time spent on training AI consists of annotating datasets"
"This is the reality...of the AI revolution: people working under oppressive surveillance at furious intensity just to keep their jobs and support their families"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/06/mercy-anita-african-workers-ai-artificial-intelligence-exploitation-feeding-machine
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