Meta, Google, MS, etc.
They all talk a diversity game.
Here's Google fronting a black face:
He is also quoted on the topic of this post. See AI has to be trained. People have to feed the beast so it can ID that shirt you saw on TV. To do this they contract with companies who then pay Africans, among others, dirt wages.
mostly American outsourcing companies.
The pay for humans in the loop is $1.50-2 an hour.
"And that is gross, before tax," Wambalo said.
$1.50 an hour.
Before tax.
I suppose that's what Google means by "share in the benefits" in their 'racial justice".
SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.
1.50/hour is fair for the region. That said, I think there are people in the US who would take $12/hour to ID images for AI. Matter of fact, I would say that anyone on welfare or unemployment should be given those jobs until they can find [better] work, instead of being paid by taxes. But that's another post for another day.
They used to say 'thank you.' They give you a bottle of soda and KFC chicken. Two pieces. And that is it," Wambalo said.
Did they offer some watermelon too?
