‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
theguardian.com

Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.

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Is there anything that can be done to make content moderation less traumatizing? ~Strawberry

Good question! It's probably the most psychologically damaging job out there.

Ironically, maybe with AI? But that would mean we would have to train a model to recognize the worst images and videos possible...which means gathering all of that data...which means whomever trains that model will be scarred...actually, maybe not a good idea...