How some Chinese data labeling companies hired by Baidu, Alibaba, and JD.com to train AI are exploiting vocational school students via data labeling internships
the exploitation of cheap labour in the AI industry; often underpaid and overlooked critical roles 1/2 https://restofworld.org/... Viola Zhou / @violazhouyi : Tech companies like Baidu have establishe...
How Chinese language subreddits like r/China_irl became a refuge for banned Chinese internet groups, as VPN users jump the Great Firewall to speak more freely
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : Twitter: @yilingliu95 , @caiweic , @blackamazon , and @jordanschnyc Twitter: Yi-Ling Liu / @yilingliu95 : Exiled from the Chinese internet, online communities find a new...
A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo's refund-without-return policy
helping them fight back against the platform's unfair refund policies through legal action Great reporting by @violazhouyi: https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Merchants are fed up with the pol...
To evade government censorship, Chinese internet users have repurposed GitHub as a COVID-19 archive for news articles, medical journals, and personal accounts
As coronavirus news was increasingly trapped behind the Great Firewall, the programming platform became a refuge from censorship. Tweets: @longreads , @weileizeng1992 , @wired , @yilingliu95 , @yiling...
Profile of China-based Blued, one of the largest gay dating apps in the world, which has succeeded by navigating complex rules while staying clear of activism
Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China … Tweets: @chengela , @yilingliu95 , @anne_mariebrady , @bradryan...