Interviews with 10 Kenyan AI annotators show how Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability
Rest of World : LinkedIn: Dámiláre Dòsùnmú . Bluesky: @fireantprincess and @restofworld.org LinkedIn: Dámiláre Dòsùnmú : my latest story is about how chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into kenya's young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates … Bluesky: @fireantprincess : we already live in a cyberpunk dystopia restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c... [embedded post] @restofworld.org : Kenya's unemployment crisis has allowed Chinese AI companies to tap into a workforce of young people, who spend 12-hour shifts labeling data in thousands of videos for around $6 a day restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c...