Row 47051

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By Caroline Haskins

On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI [published an open letter](https://www.foxglove.org.uk/open-letter-to-president-biden-from-tech-workers-in-kenya/) to President Biden, demanding that US tech companies stop “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers.” The workers allege that the practices of companies like Meta, OpenAI, and data provider Scale AI “amount to modern day slavery.” The companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A typical workday for African tech contractors, the letter says, involves “watching murder and beheadings, child abuse and rape, pornography and bestiality, often for more than 8 hours a day.” Pay is often less than $2 per hour, it says, and workers frequently end up with post-traumatic stress disorder, a [well-documented](https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm5mw5/facebook-content-moderation-lawsuit-ptsd) [issue among](https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona) [content moderators](https://www.wired.com/story/bumble-grindr-and-hinge-moderators-trauma/) [around the world](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-kenya-lawsuit-outsourcing-content-moderation/).

Full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery](https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery)

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