Australian companies hire Kenyan laborers to disguise AI chatbots, paying 0.05 dollars per message.

According to reports, the latest disclosed testimonies show that the "Data Worker Survey" - an international research project aimed at empowering gig workers to record their own industry conditions, revealed shocking details behind the rapid growth of the most booming consumer segment in the field of artificial intelligence. Kenyan man Michael Jeffrey Asia, in a report he wrote for the project, wrote that he fell into despair when he couldn't find a job in the global aviation industry he studied and got in touch with the world of data annotation and chat content moderation. However, for him, these "chats" turned into "romantic and intimate conversations on platforms I had never heard of". In order to complete the tasks, Michael had to play multiple roles at the same time, building detailed background stories for each character to act as a "chatbot" for users on the other side of the world. "Sometimes I would take over a conversation that had been going on for several days and had to seamlessly continue it, so the user wouldn't realize that the responder had changed," he wrote. On any given workday, Michael had to embody "three to five different personas", each with a different gender. His compensation was based on the number of messages, with a fixed rate of $0.05 per message, but each message had to reach a certain number of characters. In addition, he had to maintain a typing speed of at least 40 words per minute and constantly monitor the total number of sent messages displayed on the dashboard in real-time.