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Big tech companies are paying people in Kenya as little as $2. No wonder
Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American companies.
Kenyan civil rights activist Nerima Wako-Ojiwa said the workers' desperation, in a country with high unemployment, led to a culture of exploitation with unfair wages and no job security. Nerima Wako-Ojiwa 60 Minutes Every year, a million young people enter the job market, so the government has been courting tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Apple and Intel. Wambalo and other digital workers spent eight hours a day in front of a screen studying photos and videos, drawing boxes around objects and labeling them, teaching AI algorithms to recognize them.
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