[mbrumlow]

> he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots

This makes no sense. AI sex bots don’t need humans texting and role playing.

I don’t think whoever wrote this article understands what AI is.

Note the fist job of describing what was in the video seems like somebody building a AI dataset.

[kristopolous]

Jason certainly does [1]. The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human.

It's very much an ensemble method. That's why people pay for it over just downloading an abliterated model from hf with system prompt hacking. Go and try it, the SOTA of role-playing models still have a lot to be desired

[1] https://computerhistory.org/profile/jason-koebler/

[Ukv]

> The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human. It's very much an ensemble method.

This seems unlikely to me, given it'd increase costs and the response times would make it obvious.

The messages presented in the original source appear to be people expecting to be talking to a real person, likely on a dating app. The relation to AI is only speculative, and mostly in the direction of "my messages may be used to train a chatbot to replace my job of deceiving people" - which is plausible.

> That's why people pay for it over just downloading an abliterated model from hf with system prompt hacking.

I'd assume convenience, fine-tuning, and using a larger model than it's feasible for most people to run locally.

[kristopolous]

He goes over his coverage on the latest 404 podcast.

I agree it seems like it's only this one man that's making the claims though.

I looked for other people reporting the thing online but I couldn't find it it all tracks back to this one guy that Jason interviewed

Fails the double source test

[3rodents]

“Actually Indians” is a meme for a reason

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--wa... The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/former-nate-ceo-human-worke... Former nate CEO who used human workers instead of AI allegedly defrauded investors lured by new tech of millions

[dang]

(We've since changed the URL from https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... to the essay it references, which was written by Michael Geoffrey Asia himself and goes much deeper into the topic. I've put a reference to the profile article in the toptext.)