- Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands of videos a day.
- The work is done through opaque networks of middlemen and WhatsApp groups that operate like digital factory floors.
- Kenya’s weak labor protections and soaring youth unemployment have made it a hot spot for cheap AI labor, prompting officials and unions to warn of a new form of digital colonialism as the government rushes to draft regulations.
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- 3 months
This is exactly what American companies are doing though. AI is basically built on the back of slave wages
- lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish3 months
Of course, it’s not a good thing when anyone does it.
And isn’t everything? We rely on the most exploited at the lowest levels to provide our raw resources. The whole global system is fucked.
- 3 months
True that brother. I make way less than what I should be making. in the summer when I’m whored out I make $40 base. Rest of the year or internal work I’m making $26
i can go independent and charge $120+ an hour but it’s hard to get clients when the two big players will purposely go out of their way to fuck you over.
- Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
Standard anti-china propaganda piece… US Plutocracy is really firing it up. They seem scared…
