Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd
replyIn that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.
replyor the amazon store with no check-out having indians monitoring you via cameras to build your checkout bill as you out items in your shopping cart
replyI wonder what Sam's club is doing because their checker is using some sort of video based pre-check and sometimes they don't need to check you at all. Still, everything is scanned ahead of time by you or the cashier. Once I did forget to scan an item and they noticed.
replySource? Curious to know more.
replyThere's tons of articles all over Google about this, it's not exactly hidden knowledge hoarded by this HN poster.
replyExample: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-fac...
AI: Actual Indians^WMalagasy
replyThanks was a good watch. Sad though the example of the AI app to “help farmers” that is making things up. I would expect a generational cassava farmer to have a much better sense of how to treat the plants than an image model.
replyWere they sore about it?
replyOr don’t tell me, if it’s well worth the 24min watch
Oh no! The ones working at 120€/month are the happy few. This is above mid range income in Madagascar. I just wanted to point out that this is not all automated running on GPUs. There are people involved, more than I thought before viewing this video.
reply> For 120 €/month they are reading about 1000 to 4000 invoices per day and check and tag them for AI training.
replyAGI will solve poverty, btw. Any second now. Just need 500 bil more bro.
OCR based invoice recognition has been a solved problem for well over a decade. Source: I've consulted for a company doing that. No exploitation. No LLMs. Just clever engineering.
replyIn my neck of the woods, B2B invoices are now required to be delivered over the Peppol network in UBL format, which further improves reliability.
Doesn't necessarily eliminate the need for an accountant, because the chosen UBL standard has lots of room for interpretation and ambiguity, and it's impossible to uniformly decide how process an invoice based on the invoice alone (e.g. is this deductible? is this even a business expense at all? which ledger should this go in? etc).
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