“The message of many data labelers and of the lawyers who have been helping them is that artificial intelligence is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world.”
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/