Many articles are being written about what Hassan describes as "digital slavery". Hassan, today 18, started his AI labeling career when he was 15.
This is a story on the kids who read, watch and listen to traumatic content (including extreme violence) to make AI services appear more autonomous and safe.
"The raw data used to train machine-learning algorithms is first labeled by humans, and human verification is also needed to evaluate their accuracy. This data-labeling ranges from the simple—identifying images of street lamps, say, or comparing similar ecommerce products—to the deeply complex, such as content moderation, where workers classify harmful content within data scraped from all corners of the internet. These tasks are often outsourced to gig workers, via online crowdsourcing platforms such as Toloka, which was where Hassan started his career."
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-data-labeling-children00
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