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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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[–] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Couldn't they hire from watchpeopledie or nothingtoxic or ebaum. Those users probably would do overtime for free.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 76 points 1 year ago (9 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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sounds like the perfect job for AI

[–] ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Huge industries emerging in this field right now for everything from this type of social media moderation to helping fight CSAM more effectively so humans aren't having to be a frontline for that type of material. This is one area I can really, really get behind AI on and see a very valid use case that isn't just marketing hype like so many others. I know there's some great stuff happening just based on my own field of employment and being close to a few things in the works this year.

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