THEY’RE PAID $2 AN HOUR TO TEACH ROBOTS THEIR OWN JOBS
A medical student in Nigeria films himself folding laundry. Robot makers buy videos like his to teach machines our jobs. The student, Zeus, earns $15 an hour, which puts him among the best paid. In India, workers wear cameras on the job for a couple of dollars an hour.
These workers are teaching the machine a job it will probably do in their place. Scholar Rob Nixon calls this kind of harm slow violence: there’s no explosion and no visible culprit.
If you’re offered money to film yourself, first ask the company in writing who gets the videos. If they won’t tell you, walk away.
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