a.i. workers exploitation

These workers are training AI to take their own jobs.There’s a hidden workforce powering the rise of ChatGPT, and nearly 1 in 5 of them have fallen into home...

Leer en español. In October 2024, I came across a video in which Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, spoke bluntly about the environmental costs of artificial intelligence (AI). Schmidt, one of...

Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a one-room home in Nairobi, working through the night while his wife and children sleep. That man is Michael, and this is his story.

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

Thousands of workers in the Philippines labor for San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Many don’t always get paid.

AI startups can rake in investment by hiding how their systems are powered by humans. But such secrecy can be exploitative.

Workers who label content and help computers understand language want their own voices to be heard.

The 21st century colonisation of Africa does not involve armies, argues cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane, but the mass harvesting of valuable data.