In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
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