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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)
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Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.

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[–] fuzzywolf23@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Average wages in Nairobi is about $4/hr. These jobs weren't generally high quality but they weren't starvation, either.