San Francisco-based company Samasource is employing impoverished Kenyans to create data that’s later used by high-level tech firms. Each day, the employees—75 percent of whom come from the slums—annotate images so that automated driving systems can “recognize” objects in the real world. Before being hired, the average employee was surviving on $2 a day. Now they earn around $9 a day. While that doesn’t seem like much, it makes a world of difference for those being employed. And unlike other places where jobs are being “outsourced”, this Nairobi-based office provides maternity leave and flexible schedules for its employees.
This firm employs Kenyans below the poverty line to create data for AI
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