Column: Minimum wage ‘ghosts’ keep Google and Microsoft’s AI arms race from becoming a nightmare (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times: Column: Minimum wage ‘ghosts’ keep Google and Microsoft’s AI arms race from becoming a nightmare. “The raters join a wave of discontented contractors in speaking out: workers who ensure YouTube videos contain the correct metadata went on strike the same week, alleging unfair labor practices. That’s not even the bottom of the barrel. A Time magazine investigation revealed that contractors in Kenya were being paid less than $2 an hour to review content for ChatGPT — much of it so toxic that it left them traumatized.”