Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

Computer-generated text, images, video, and audio will transform the way countless industries do business, the most bullish investors believe, boosting efficiency everywhere from the creative arts, to law, to computer programming. But the working conditions of data labelers reveal a darker part of that picture: that for all its glamor, AI often relies on hidden human labor in the Global South that can often be damaging and exploitative. These invisible workers remain on the margins even as their work contributes to billion-dollar industries.

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In the ancient world, women played more powerful role than previously thought – study

In a world where women frequently have to fight for a seat at the table, it is important to take lessons from groups like this to show that they are indeed the backbone of society.

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A student and his father are detained after 9 die in school shooting in Serbia

When police visited the suspect’s home, they found a safe that his father said was used to hold the firearms. But his son apparently knew the combination; the pair had also reportedly gone to the shooting range together.

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Strange but true: the expanding Universe doesn’t conserve energy

One of the most important laws in all of physics is the conservation of energy: that energy can change forms, but can never be created nor destroyed.  At a fundamental level, however, that’s only true because there’s an underlying symmetry that the Universe obeys: time-translation symmetry, that it’s the same from one moment to the next.  Only, that’s not true in the expanding Universe: the Universe is different from one moment to the next. As a result, energy is not conserved, with truly cosmic implications.

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