The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy (2025) [pdf]
Related: https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... ( https://archive.ph/yS8xb )
Related: https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... ( https://archive.ph/yS8xb )
Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
mbrumlow
> he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots This makes no sense. AI sex bots don’t need humans texting and role playing. I don’t think whoever wrote this article understands what AI is. Note the fist job of describing what was in the video seems like somebody building a AI dataset.
renewiltord
Phone sex line guy upset he had to do phone sex. What.
klueinc
Appaled at the lack of empathy for labellers from other comments here.
d0able
Would have liked to see a clearer call for action other than "regulation" - what exactly would the author want to regulate and what are the downstream effects?