You are building the AI-God on the backs of the poor and underprivileged

By VerkaSerduchka @ 2026-04-13T03:02 (+5)

The flashy-Star-on-head Verka is back to tell you that your AI training machines aka grunt-workers sell every figment of their life to survive, and to train the AI tools you ow so love and care about.

Your photo-generative AIs, use legally sourced materials, from poor and underprivileged people, applications like Toloka will offer you a 15 selfies task for 40 cents (White Countries get a whooooole DOLLAR), or go rank these prompts, you get paid 3 cents per prompt that is accepted, or transcribe this audio accurately, you get paid 2-3 cents per second (that is 80-115 dollars per hour of audio, which is around 30 hours of work if you are proficient, and around 50 if you are not).

Do you wanna sell your cleaning home videos, 50 cents per 5 minutes of footage, you can't stop for more than 10 seconds, or your 5 minutes are useless.

You can sell your voice, your image, your writing, your time, you can essentially sell every human bit of yourself. Tons of people choose to do that, because they are desperate and live in poverty.

People with disabilities? Especially in lower income countries, yes, they sell their time at around 1$ per hour, English language data that makes exponentially more.

Can you sit down on your cushy Aeron chairs and give it a thought, where did my AI source the training data? Just think of that disabled girl in a half-finished shack somewhere in the third world, doing 8-9-10 hour work days for a payment of 10-11$ daily. She probably speaks perfect English, as all of my projects so far required very high proficiency.

We are the slaves of your AI-systems, but we are willing slaves because we choose between living and dying, so the next time I see someone flex a 100k$ bill from Anthropic, please consider us, the cogs in the machine, we are barely surviving and you are not even acknowledging us.

I'll have to add the story about a teammate that made me tearful, US-citizen, stay at home mother, probably several kids, so it's not always the poor girl across the world in her hut, sometimes it's your next door neighbour, and granted her pay is almost x4 of mine due to geo-location based pay, but she earns 2000-2400 per month if she grinds 8 hour days every day, realistically she earns 1.2-1.3k post tax.

I feel like cattle at the end of the day, but the real pain is in the fact that cattle can't say it hurts, I am telling you all, we hurt, help us, we are reduced to human cattle.

A simple perspective, at my current pay rate to buy the home that my parents generously gifted me it would take me 241,696 hours of work. 80,000 hours... so around 3 lifetimes.

3 lifetimes for a 15,000$ shack, I bet some of you reading right now have 15,000$ on you in this moment.

3 lifetimes for the AI-grunt worker. 
I did this to see how would the average AI-worker do, I myself right now am fighting a health crisis, but I just wanted to show you how disabled poor people live, how we earn.
I talked recently with another girl with Neurofibromatosis Type 1, she said the same, she struggles for a few dollars daily, to at least contribute something to her home. 
I feel deep pain that you keep writing about cattle and chickens, and the vegans go to war for that, but nobody sees us, the human cattle, we live this trapped life and a lot of us will die, trapped in poverty, because there is no system or tool for anyone to help us. 

P.S. I don't write these for sympathy money, or offers of work or anything like that, I don't want this to be perceived as a beg for a job. I just am trying to show you the other side of your cool Claude, Gemini, GPT. THE REALISTIC images are realistic because the data is extracted from us, the underprivileged humans.

Tell me, would you sell your likeness, your face, from 15 pictures for 1 US $. For anyone to use tomorrow, for you to maybe have a likeness with a AI-generated sex image, imagine opening an AI-sex site and seeing your own face because you needed that 1$ that one time.

I am a human like you, I hurt too, we cry the same tears and shed the same blood, please see us.