{"id":25344,"date":"2026-10-08T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/someone-else-will-do-it-for-less-refugees-in-kenya-are-powering-tech-for-dwindling-pay\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:37:29","slug":"someone-else-will-do-it-for-less-refugees-in-kenya-are-powering-tech-for-dwindling-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/someone-else-will-do-it-for-less-refugees-in-kenya-are-powering-tech-for-dwindling-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Someone else will do it for less\u2019: Refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refugee gig workers for tech companies don\u2019t know how much they\u2019ll be paid \u2013 if AI hasn\u2019t already taken their jobs<\/p>\n

\n In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya<\/a>\u2019s northern border with South Sudan<\/a>, Grace used ChatGPT<\/a> to research translations of Christian hymns in languages she doesn\u2019t speak. She didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Grace, who requested anonymity due to a nondisclosure agreement, prompted ChatGPT to translate the hymn\u2019s English text into the assigned east Asian language. She then used the translation to search for existing versions and find information about its translator, author and Christian denomination. She fed those details to AOP Connect, a crowdsourced research platform owned by British AI enterprise software company RWS.<\/p>\n

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\nRefugee gig workers for tech companies don\u2019t know how much they\u2019ll be paid \u2013 if AI hasn\u2019t already taken their jobs<\/p>\n

In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya\u2019s northern border with South Sudan, Grace used ChatGPT to research translations of Christian hymns in languages she doesn\u2019t speak. She didn\u2019t 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.
\nGrace, who requested anonymity due to a nondisclosure agreement, prompted ChatGPT to translate the hymn\u2019s English text into the assigned east Asian language. She then used the translation to search for existing versions and find information about its translator, author and Christian denomination. She fed those details to AOP Connect, a crowdsourced research platform owned by British AI enterprise software company RWS. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Refugee gig workers for tech companies don\u2019t know how much they\u2019ll be paid \u2013 if AI hasn\u2019t already taken their jobs In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya\u2019s northern border with South Sudan, Grace used ChatGPT to research translations of Christian hymns in languages she doesn\u2019t speak. She didn\u2019t know the …<\/p>\n

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