ChatGPT pays Kenyan workers $2 an hour to review obscene content

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: ChatGPT pays Kenyan workers $2 an hour to review obscene content | Boing Boing

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[snigs]

Paying humans 2$ an hour to be the “biological filters” for inhuman inhumane AI’s with no moral compass?
This is obscene and dystopian as hell.

[gracchus]

Mechanical Turking just gets more and more grim.

[robertmckenna]

So not a surprise. Bots always end up spouting Nazi child abuse without humans.

I work with some of those humans. They are always arms length from the money making company and subcontracted out.

They don’t see the rewards for the obscene amount of money those tech companies were making off their hazardous, hard labour. And their employment is precarious as contractors.

[nemonowan]

Nothing new under the sun.
I remember articles about Facebook content reviewers that showed the same soul-crushing from exposure to that kind of content. Only worse because it was actual humans generating and posting that content