For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/
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Several workers in Kenya told me - confirmed by local media reports - that Remotasks, one of the largest AI data work platforms in the country that Scale AI owns and OpenAI uses, has suddenly suspended their operations in Kenya. When workers try to log on, they see this. 2/
@_KarenHao Worker owned coops offering services to AI companies.