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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI companies want you to think their AI will magically replace all those annoying human employees. In reality, AI runs on low-paid labor — lots of it. Actual people are needed to tag and label photos and classify text. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">60 Minutes did a great show on this last Sunday. Kenyan classifiers have been working for two years to expose what’s going on behind the curtain. [</span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/labelers-training-ai-say-theyre-overworked-underpaid-and-exploited-60-minutes-transcript/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CBS</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">; </span></i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">YouTube</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">US wages are too high, so the richest companies in the world turn to countries with low-wage populations, such as Kenya — with an English-speaking workforce and high unemployment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenAI, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft don’t hire directly. They outsource to vendors such as Sama. This insulates their reputations from the frequently abusive labor practices — even as they dictate them. OpenAI pays Sama $12.50/hour. The workers get $2/hour or less. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The jobs are draining. Deadlines are unrealistic and punitive. Workers have mere seconds to complete complicated labeling tasks. “Honestly, it’s like modern-day slavery,” one worker told 60-Minutes. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We were walking on eggshells,” said another. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some workers are forced to view violent scenes of rape, murder, bestiality, and incest for hours a day. [</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guardian, 2023</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The workers are hired per project, but they say Sama would push them to finish jobs faster than projects required. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenAI has used Kenyan workers since 2022. By 2023, workers were protesting the disturbing work of building ChatGPT’s safety filters. In May 2024, the African Content Moderators Union asked President Biden to look into what OpenAI was doing. [</span><a href="https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2023; </span></i><a href="https://www.medianama.com/2023/07/223-kenyan-workers-call-for-investigation-into-exploitation-by-openai-3/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">MediaNama</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2023; </span></i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-openai-content-abusive-sexually-explicit-harassment-kenya-workers-on-human-workers-cf191483"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">WSJ</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2023, </span></i><a href="https://archive.is/UuqgK"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">archive</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; </span><a href="https://www.foxglove.org.uk/open-letter-to-president-biden-from-tech-workers-in-kenya/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">letter</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wired</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></i><a href="https://archive.ph/KHoL9"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">archive</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></p> <div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this post:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-facebook"><a class="share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text" data-shared="sharing-facebook-2270" href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/?share=facebook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Facebook"><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-linkedin"><a class="share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text" data-shared="sharing-linkedin-2270" href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/?share=linkedin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Click to share on LinkedIn"><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-reddit"><a class="share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text" data-shared="" href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/?share=reddit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Reddit"><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-twitter"><a class="share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text" data-shared="sharing-twitter-2270" href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/?share=twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Twitter"><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-mastodon"><a class="share-mastodon sd-button share-icon no-text" data-shared="sharing-mastodon-2270" href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/?share=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Mastodon"><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-bluesky"><a class="share-bluesky sd-button share-icon no-text" data-shared="sharing-bluesky-2270" href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/?share=bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Bluesky"><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-email"><a class="share-email sd-button share-icon no-text" data-email-share-error-text="If you're having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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