AI companies want you to think their AI will magically replace all those annoying human employees. In reality, AI runs on low-paid labor. Actual people are needed to tag photos and classify text.
US wages are too high, so the richest companies in the world turn to countries with low-wage populations.
OpenAI, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft don’t hire directly. They outsource to vendors. This insulates their reputations from the abusive labor practices.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/
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