Now, new research suggests that African moderators have it worse than their colleagues in Asia, Europe, and the Americas when it comes to their mental health.
Crucially, the researchers used the same clinical framework as a separate survey of 160 moderators from other continents. That separate survey found lower (though still substantial) rates of the same symptoms. “African content moderators’ psychological distress and well-being are collectively worse off than global averages of well-being of content moderators,” the researchers contend.
The non-African survey, meanwhile, was distributed by the trust and safety team of an unnamed content moderation company working in the “entertainment” space. The two recruitment practices are different enough to mean any comparison should be taken with a hefty grain of salt. That said, the average distress score for African moderators was roughly double that of moderators in other regions. The gap between the two surveys is "statistically massive," says Nuredin Ali Abdelkadir, the paper's lead author and a PhD student at the University of Minnesota. "It is unlikely that recruitment bias alone would account for such significant differences.” (Several authors on the African paper are themselves former content moderators who are involved in employee activism, which the paper presents as a benefit, rather than a bias.)
One counterintuitive finding of the study was that African former content moderators tend to have higher rates of distress, and lower well-being, than their serving counterparts. Abdelkadir suggests this may be because many former content moderators are unemployed, leaving them more time to ruminate on what they experienced in the job. Being unemployed, too, can mean a risk of poverty. “That basically compounds,” he says. “That makes it extremely difficult for them.”
AI in Action
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What We’re Reading
If you’ve been listening to Jensen Huang recently, you’ve probably heard him talk about how tokens per dollar will soon become the most important economic metric in the world. The idea is that tokens (units of text used by AI, roughly comparable to part of a word) will directly correlate with revenue in the AI economy — meaning that whoever owns the most efficient chip wins. Essentially, it’s a way for Huang to flaunt Nvidia’s performance. The billionaire has taunted rivals with the claim that even if their chips were free, it would still make more sense to buy Nvidia’s at full price, because of the cost savings involved in running more efficient chips over long periods of time.
But in the FT, Richard Waters complicates that narrative a little bit. “It is not hard to see why the Nvidia boss wants a nervous Wall Street to focus on token economics,” he writes. “Forget the gargantuan capital spending or the fact that so many competitors are lining up to eat into Nvidia’s fat profit margins, he seems to be saying: as long as his company’s chips keep pumping out tokens at the lowest cost and as long as demand for tokens continues to far outstrip supply, then all is well with the AI boom.”
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