An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.
  • Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands of videos a day.
  • The work is done through opaque networks of middlemen and WhatsApp groups that operate like digital factory floors.
  • Kenya’s weak labor protections and soaring youth unemployment have made it a hot spot for cheap AI labor, prompting officials and unions to warn of a new form of digital colonialism as the government rushes to draft regulations.
    • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Of course, it’s not a good thing when anyone does it.

      And isn’t everything? We rely on the most exploited at the lowest levels to provide our raw resources. The whole global system is fucked.

      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        True that brother. I make way less than what I should be making. in the summer when I’m whored out I make $40 base. Rest of the year or internal work I’m making $26

        i can go independent and charge $120+ an hour but it’s hard to get clients when the two big players will purposely go out of their way to fuck you over.

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
    73·
    2 days ago

    Standard anti-china propaganda piece… US Plutocracy is really firing it up. They seem scared…