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18 March 2024 10h58

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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18 March 2024

Corporate Responsibility: Poverty Wages and Worker Safety Ethics

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16 March 2024 17h55

Where does your implication that paying poverty $ is 'natural' and providing people with the resources to live in exchange for their labor is 'idealistic'? Where's your smoke for corps that could rn make changes to create safer streets & less impoverished workers, but refuse?

Mophat and Richard launch nonprofit for African data workers rights

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16 March 2024 15h33

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://
techworkercommunityafrica.org

Data annotation work: Silicon Valley promises versus harsh worker reality

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16 March 2024 15h24

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/

Remotasks AI platform suspends operations in Kenya suddenly

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16 March 2024 15h24

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/

Data Annotation Workers Face Exploitation by AI Industry Platforms

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16 March 2024 15h24

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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Mental Health Quotient: Essential Business Metric for Companies

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16 March 2024 6h07

Companies will soon recognize that the Employee Mental Health Quotient is as essential as revenue growth, EBITDA, and Net Promoter Score.