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  • 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.
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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Standard anti-china propaganda piece.. US Plutocracy is really firing it up. They seem scared..

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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