'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
date linked: 12 March 2026
source: link to article, from 404media.co
Required reading, imo.
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I have lots of concerns about LLM training, but I think it’s better to think of the issue in terms of digital labor, not copyright. My blog is licensed for reuse, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less exploitative for someone to scrape it all to develop software that will make them rich off my work.
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