#Women in rural #India report experiencing #trauma from #dataannotation work, which requires them to review #violentcontent and #porn for global tech companies. The workers describe hours of exposure to #abusivecontent while #training #AI systems, with lasting psychological effects. The investigation highlights the human cost behind AI development and raises questions about labor practices in the tech industry. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai?eicker.news #India #Tech #IndiaTech #Technews
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

The Guardian

Engadget: YouTube will ‘strengthen’ enforcement around violent and gambling games in November. “YouTube will enforce new rules that are supposed to strengthen the enforcement of its guidelines around online gambling and graphic video game content starting on November 17. One of the biggest changes it’s implementing is age-restricting gaming videos featuring realistic human characters in scenes […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/31/engadget-youtube-will-strengthen-enforcement-around-violent-and-gambling-games-in-november/

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Techdirt: Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is A Problem.. “Everyone thinks trust & safety professionals are either censorial scolds or corporate lackeys, but everyone expects them to magically solve the inherent problems of human behavior at scale. I spent last week at TrustCon, the premier annual conference for the trust and safety industry (you can see our […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/techdirt-everyone-hates-trust-safety-everyone-needs-trust-safety-this-is-a-problem/

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Engadget: GOG is giving away a selection of adult games to protest censorship. “In partnership with developers, game marketplace GOG (Good Old Games) has launched a new website called FreedomtoBuy.games that’ll let you download select ‘adult’ games for free.” The games are considered “adult” mostly for sexual context but in one case also for heavy violence.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/02/engadget-gog-is-giving-away-a-selection-of-adult-games-to-protest-censorship/

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Engadget: Facebook sees rise in violent content and harassment after policy changes. “Meta has published the first of its quarterly integrity reports since Mark Zuckerberg walked back the company’s hate speech policies and changed its approach to content moderation earlier this year. According to the reports, Facebook saw an uptick in violent content, bullying and harassment despite an […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/engadget-facebook-sees-rise-in-violent-content-and-harassment-after-policy-changes/

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BBC: Kids exposed to social media posts about violence and suicide. “A BBC investigation has found young teenagers are being exposed to content about weapons, bullying, murder and suicide soon after joining social media platforms. The project, which saw six fictional profiles set up as 13-15-year-olds, found they were shown the ‘worrying’ posts within just minutes of scrolling on TikTok and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/bbc-kids-exposed-to-social-media-posts-about-violence-and-suicide/

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Futurism: A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims . “Many of these school shooting chatbots put the user in the center of a game-like simulation in which they navigate a chaotic scene at an elementary, middle, or high school. These scenes are often graphic, discussing specific weapons and injuries to classmates, or […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/26/futurism-a-google-backed-ai-startup-is-hosting-chatbots-modeled-after-real-life-school-shooters-and-their-victims/

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#bloomberg #DaveLee #x #elonmusk #violentcontent #sewers #socialmedia

This guy predicts the end of X, I really hope so , I will post a video later but everything he says here is right , X is a sewer .

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

Bloomberg
Manipur Government Bans Violent Content on Social Media : Ganga News

The Manipur government, led by N. Biren Singh, has prohibited the circulation of violent videos and images to restore peace.

Ganga News