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‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma (www.euronews.com)
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‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma::More than 20% of the staff Meta hired to check the violent content of Facebook and Instagram are on sick leave due to psychological trauma.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People that are completely desensitized to that kind of stuff would probably not be very good at moderating it really.

Also this is a terrible job and I'd be very worried if a company was paying and enabling people who find that fun. It's horrible, but trauma is the normal outcome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the perfect job for AI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel sorry for whichever researchers are in charge of training and fine tuning those models.... ouch