'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.“It required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m t...
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