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by cantalopes 38 days ago
Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd
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In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.
or the amazon store with no check-out having indians monitoring you via cameras to build your checkout bill as you out items in your shopping cart
I wonder what Sam's club is doing because their checker is using some sort of video based pre-check and sometimes they don't need to check you at all. Still, everything is scanned ahead of time by you or the cashier. Once I did forget to scan an item and they noticed.
Source? Curious to know more.
There's tons of articles all over Google about this, it's not exactly hidden knowledge hoarded by this HN poster.

Example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-fac...