Some companies that provide Big Tech and other clients with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring minors, often exposing them to traumatic content
Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content.
A huge global workforce of clickworkers labours for a few dollars a day to train artificial intelligence, often being exposed to violent or sexualised content. An investigation by @niamhrowe7 for @WIRED found that many of those workers are underage. https://www.wired.com/...
Big tech companies outsource AI data labeling to gig working platforms. Those platforms, in turn, are inadvertently hiring children and teenagers in countries including Venezuela, Pakistan, and India — who are then exposed to traumatic content: https://www.wired.com/...
In my latest for @WIRED I uncovered how kids in developing countries are indirectly working for some of Silicon Valley's biggest AI heavyweights. This can mean reviewing harmful content for as little as $0.1, to keep our online experience safe.