Is 'Sweatshop Data' Really Over?

This one caught my attention. As regular readers may know, I've done a lot of reporting over the years on the origins of the data that is used to train AI systems. My story "Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop" was the first to reveal how Meta used contractors in Kenya, some earning as little as 1.50 per hour, to remove content from their platforms--content that would later be used in attempts to train AI systems to do that job automatically. I also broke the news that OpenAI used workers from the same outsourcing company to detoxify ChatGPT. In both cases, workers said the labor left them with diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder.