“By the beginning of this year, pay for the Kenyan annotators I spoke with had dropped to between $1 and $3 per hour.”
Remotasks is Scale AI’s worker-facing brand, and neither website mentions the other. Scale was valued at $7.3 billion in 2021 and counts OpenAI and the US military as customers. A Nairobi annotator spent eight hours labelling a few seconds of self-driving footage for about $10. The machines are learning from people who aren’t allowed to know who they work for.