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AI Spotlight Series Launches Free Journalist Training Program
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Scale AI Remotasks Access Blocked Across Multiple African Countries
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Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.
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Mophat and Richard launch nonprofit for African data workers rights
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Mophat and Richard who are featured in the WSJ piece have since formed a nonprofit organization Techworker Community Africa and are seeking new ways to support and advance labor rights and economic opportunities for Kenyan and African data workers. 10/ http://
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Wall Street Journal podcast on data annotation industry
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If you want to learn more about the data annotation industry, here is a podcast I reported for the Wall Street Journal. 7/ https://t.co/YnvDI1RYQI
— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) 16 mars 2024If you want to learn more about the data annotation industry, here is a podcast I reported for the Wall Street Journal. 7/
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AI Industry Logic and Economic Inequality for the Majority
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In what universe is this the path toward beneficial AI for everyone? What’s happening here is a stark illustration of the logic of the AI industry and the long term economic precarity coming for all but a tiny few if we follow it to its conclusion. 6/
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Data annotation work: Silicon Valley promises versus harsh worker reality
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Silicon Valley loves to say data annotation work provides economic opportunity. The tragic thing is it really could if platforms were designed to uplift workers by providing them jobs with regular working hours, security, and stable incomes. The reality is so far from this. 4/
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Remotasks AI platform suspends operations in Kenya suddenly
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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/
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Data Annotation Workers Face Exploitation by AI Industry Platforms
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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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China gains elite AI research share while US loses top talent appeal
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I've been waiting for an update to this study for a long time. It confirms in AI a trend happening across science & tech fields: China is gaining share in elite research, and the US is beginning to lose attractiveness among top talent. A few relevant stories ed below.
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Correction about feasibility claims
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Yes you’re right – I should have said *they said* it’s infeasible