Gruelling, low-paid human work behind generative AI curtain


Most of the people labouring to fine-tune data for AI are in precarious working relationships that can be severed from one day to the next. — AFP

PARIS: For a generative artificial intelligence system to learn how to write an autopsy report, human workers must sort and annotate thousands of crime scene images.

The precarious work of training AI, which generally pays just a few dollars, has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions stretching from Kenya to Colombia.

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