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Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour
Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action …