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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The average cost of living is somewhere around $650 for one person, and those wages are a bit low but the higher end is above average for the country.

(I don't know how accurate this data is, but based on https://livingcost.org/cost/kenya/United-States)

I'm not saying they shouldn't be paid better or more, but those wages aren't as outlandish as they sound for the country.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And here I must be crazy thinking if it is US company paying them, maybe they deserve the equivalent of US employees, no matter what the fucking local pay is.

That "local pay" bullshit is just an excuse to exploit. Pay them what you would have to pay a US citizen for the same job or fuck right off. They don't deserve less because of geographic location.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Local pay for an international company is theft

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure I follow the logic here