The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

Artificial intelligence has graced humanity with many blessings: videos of Stephen Hawking as professional wrestler, thousands of AI-generated podcasts, and more cutting edge Spotify tunes than anyone can hope to hear in a lifetime. Unfortunately, the technology of the future demands a high price. On top of the exorbitant energy cost fueling a return to industrial-era levels of pollution, AI is also propped up by a massive global sweatshop opera…