Yea, sounds like a typical media piece to evoke emotion. "oh no the poor africans"

What is an "AI sex bot" ?

Because ChatGTP, Claude, Gemini, Grock and Mistral can all ERP...

Jason certainly does [1]. The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human.

It's very much an ensemble method. That's why people pay for it over just downloading an abliterated model from hf with system prompt hacking. Go and try it, the SOTA of role-playing models still have a lot to be desired

[1] https://computerhistory.org/profile/jason-koebler/

(We've since changed the URL from https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... to the essay it references, which was written by Michael Geoffrey Asia himself and goes much deeper into the topic. I've put a reference to the profile article in the toptext.)

“Actually Indians” is a meme for a reason

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--wa... The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/former-nate-ceo-human-worke... Former nate CEO who used human workers instead of AI allegedly defrauded investors lured by new tech of millions

I read the 404 article and its nauseating - the story of the young man from Africa is very unpleasant. We all know the pr0n industry is a thing but this is off the rails.

Yeah same. Anything seems to go if it means the next version of $HOT_LLM_MODEL is improved.

Good, good. Very virtuous of you.

What exactly are you asking for, just some commiserative platitudes? I don't think anyone is under the false impression that these are awesome jobs, but the fact is, they are jobs. The people doing them are getting paid to do them. Why would data labellers be more deserving of sympathy than any other type of office worker?