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Amazon: We can't make money if our workers get bathroom breaks (media.mas.to)
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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

The pay and the TASK, holy fuck, being exposed to images and content that most people can't take in even small doses, and with NO therapy options. Horrible.

[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh crap.

There's been recruitment here in the Philippines for similar AI training tasks with very little pay, too. But that thing in Kenya is much much worse.

I took on a music-related task out of curiosity and I got these recruitment emails after

This one is about NSFW prompts

This one is on image annotation

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 months ago

Holy shit those are absolutely abysmal rates for the amount of (potentially psychologically scarring) work you'd have to do. wtfff