Post #41369
2025-12-08 12:00 UTC
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands of videos a day.
The work is done through opaque networks of middlemen and WhatsApp groups that operate like digital factory floors.
Kenya’s weak labor protections and soaring youth unemployment have made it a hot spot for cheap AI labor, prompting officials and unions to warn of a new form of digital colonialism as the government rushes to draft regulations.
Replies (5)
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@mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2025-12-08 13:06
IBM has entered the chat
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@REDACTED@infosec.pub 2025-12-08 15:31
OpenAI used east Europeans. Just sayin…
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@demonsword@lemmy.world 2025-12-08 16:51
“restofworld”. Talk about condescending.
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@Sims@lemmy.ml 2025-12-08 18:58
Standard anti-china propaganda piece… US Plutocracy is really firing it up. They seem scared…
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@HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-08 19:07
This is exactly what American companies are doing though. AI is basically built on the back of slave wages