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.

This is exactly what American companies are doing though. AI is basically built on the back of slave wages

Of course, it’s not a good thing if anyone does it. And isn’t everything? We rely on the most exploited at the lowest levels to provide our raw resources. The whole global system is fucked.