presidentalpaca

meta, bytedance, and openai (facebook, tiktok, and chat gpt) have been paying workers in africa $1.50 an hour to moderate their ai. those workers are now unionizing, which has gotten a lot of press. however the really important part will come when those workers begin negotiations. keep an eye out in the future for any support they may need. this is going to be a big fucking battle against these massive, super protected entities just to not be paid starving wages

150 AI Workers Vote to Unionize at Nairobi Meeting More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union Time