ace‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay
In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya’s northern border with South Sudan, Grace used ChatGPT to research translations of Christian hymns in languages she doesn’t speak. She didn’t 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. Grace, who requested anonymity due to a nondisclosure agreement, prompted ChatGPT to translate the hymn’s English text into the assigned east Asian lang…
Refugees in Kakuma doing AI-related microwork see pay vanish or become discretionary, with little transparency, trauma exposure from violent content, and fewer entry-level opportunities.
The reporting rests on interviews and documents about one camp, and company representatives dispute the characterization of transparency and AI involvement in the AOP Connect platform.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-08
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