‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay

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Refugees in Kenya's Kakuma camp are performing AI-related tasks like translation and data annotation via platforms like AOP Connect, often without guaranteed pay and under opaque conditions. While tech firms benefit from this cheap labor, refugees face dwindling opportunities and unclear compensation, raising concerns about exploitation in the AI outsourcing industry.

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