When people discuss the myriad ills of #LLMs and #GenAI they often fail to mention the exploited and abused laborers who are fundamental to building AI software https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/google-gemini-ai-training-humans
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We should not ignore the precarious and dangerous situations that many of these vital data workers find themselves in as enormous, multinational corporations exploit their labor for pennies https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/
Despite the crucial role they play for the industry #LLM companies routinely underpay the people working to train the models they exploit for profit https://www.wired.com/story/millions-of-workers-are-training-ai-models-for-pennies/
We shouldn't ignore that #GenAI companies resort to prison labor to train their models https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285572/prison-labor-finland-artificial-intelligence-data-tagging-vainu
People should really be talking more about the exploitative sweatshop labor that is foundational to the #LLM industry https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/