Flutterby™! : A Guy (in Kenya) Instead

A Guy (in Kenya) Instead

2025-12-15 17:52:41.837144+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Data Workers Inquiry: The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy

My name is Michael Geoffrey Asia, and I wrote this testimony to tell the story of workers like me who found ourselves trapped in the hidden corners of the AI industry, where human emotion becomes data.

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"How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps three meters away?"

(Via Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com

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Marcus Olang': I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. (via)

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