I think this was downvoted so heavily because of the title, rather than the content. I’m glad you raised this and I personally did not know about it previously. Maybe republish under a title like “OpenAI under fire for underpaying Kenyans used to filter ChatGPT traumatic content” or something along those lines?
Thanks—although I instinctively know that a title like this would get downvoted so heavily, I don’t fully understand why. The title seems to me to be true and I doubt many would argue with that statement, although of course it doesn’t describe the content in the post at all. Is the downvoting because it is non-specific and making a generalisation? Could there be an element of vague pro-capitalism and anti socialist sentiment around here which caused it to be downvoted too?
I like Rockwell’s idea to republish under a different name. This seems to me like an important issue which I would love to engage with. For example from my Uganda-centric perspective $2 an hour seems like a pretty good wage to me for this kind of work in Kenya, but obviously these replies will never get seen given the downvoting of the post ;).
My current opinion is that title and content are both unprofessional enough despite saying some truths.
2$ an hour is payment better than no payment in “Uganda-centric perspective”, but this work is creating mental health patients in a country where people cannot receive good support.
On the other hand, I doubt that any country can provide proper support for work where people have to consume the most disturbing content that exist.
It is a tough problem, but it should not be exported to a developing country to deal with, where people don’t have any other choice but take any worst job that comes their way.
I think this was downvoted so heavily because of the title, rather than the content. I’m glad you raised this and I personally did not know about it previously. Maybe republish under a title like “OpenAI under fire for underpaying Kenyans used to filter ChatGPT traumatic content” or something along those lines?
Thanks—although I instinctively know that a title like this would get downvoted so heavily, I don’t fully understand why. The title seems to me to be true and I doubt many would argue with that statement, although of course it doesn’t describe the content in the post at all. Is the downvoting because it is non-specific and making a generalisation? Could there be an element of vague pro-capitalism and anti socialist sentiment around here which caused it to be downvoted too?
I like Rockwell’s idea to republish under a different name. This seems to me like an important issue which I would love to engage with. For example from my Uganda-centric perspective $2 an hour seems like a pretty good wage to me for this kind of work in Kenya, but obviously these replies will never get seen given the downvoting of the post ;).
Thanks for your thoughts.
My current opinion is that title and content are both unprofessional enough despite saying some truths.
2$ an hour is payment better than no payment in “Uganda-centric perspective”, but this work is creating mental health patients in a country where people cannot receive good support.
On the other hand, I doubt that any country can provide proper support for work where people have to consume the most disturbing content that exist.
It is a tough problem, but it should not be exported to a developing country to deal with, where people don’t have any other choice but take any worst job that comes their way.
What if it would be done the other way around—content be expanded 20x times to match the title well?
I think this title will always get downvoted on this forum, no matter how good the content is.