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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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 129 points 11 months ago (67 children)

Cool. Using slave labor to train tools to strip the best parts of humanity away from us so that AI can do creative activities like poetry and art while we're more and more stuck in a gig economy.

Cool cool cool cool.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

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[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They can leave the job but they will still carry the psychological scars from it. They were not receiving adequate mental health support for the severity of the content they had to deal with.

[–] fred-kowalski@kbin.sh 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You comment inspired this thought: The older I get, the less I have faith in psychological support making us whole. I still think it should be part of work like this but the damage can be as permanent as losing a limb. What is that worth in money? (hypothetical)

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

That's definitely something to consider. Psychological support helps people with coping but it doesn't remove the trauma. Anyone willing to do this sort of work deserves to be very well compensated.

But all that said, it isn't even unique to AI that there is a need for people to sift through the worst stuff imaginable to prevent everyone else from being exposed. All user-generated internet content has that problem.

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