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

Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya ’s northern border with South Sudan , Grace used ChatGPT to research translations of Christian hymns in languages she doesn’t speak.

She didn’t know the client, the purpose of her work or whether she would be paid, but as a refugee unable to legally work in Kenya, she needed any opportunity she could get. Grace, who requested anonymity due to a nondisclosure agreement, prompted ChatGPT to translate the hymn’s English text into the assigned east Asian language. She…