It's about Somali speaking gig-workers in Kenya transcribing and translating audio for a company called Appen, that then gets passed on to the US military to train translation systems for the US military that presumably get used in US military operations in and around Somalia.
The workers don't get told what the data will be used for or who the final client is.
To maybe save others a google. Appen is an Australian company focusing on linguistics/translation. Different from Appin, the hack for hire service out of India.
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It's about Somali speaking gig-workers in Kenya transcribing and translating audio for a company called Appen, that then gets passed on to the US military to train translation systems for the US military that presumably get used in US military operations in and around Somalia.
The workers don't get told what the data will be used for or who the final client is.
To maybe save others a google. Appen is an Australian company focusing on linguistics/translation. Different from Appin, the hack for hire service out of India.
How much do gig workers in Africa care? How much should they care?