The article is so over the place it could have been unironically written with ChatGPT.

Did this author really just try to compare the “mentally taxing” job of annotating data at minimum wage to the extortion of physical labor and colonialism?

Lmao

Ewww a vice article

Is her only argument that AI relies on third world labor to label training data? She's ignoring that most Big Tech companies already have more than enough of their own customer's data, or can use any of the many standard datasets.

I remember when Vice would go into hostile nations to get footage for a documentary. Now they just do this.

Humans are nothing but consistent in their exploitation of others. I knew ML systems were human trained, but not to this extent. It never ceases to amaze me how often capitalist companies from 1 country, continously exploit human lives from other countries, and even in extreme outcomes of pain and grievance, tend to get away without any consequences, all in the name of profits and outcomes.