'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

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• D Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app amplified

  @moira.bsky.social

  “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.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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• CJ @virmalised.us amplified

  @erikas.online

  Right, it's definitely not globally marginalized people being paid to correct and annotate for LLMs or pretend to be them. That's definitely not traumatizing a whole class of laborers in Anglophone Africa.

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