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which might be a good argument for gigification of these types of content moderation positions since the machine learning tech simply isn't there yet and might never be in some cases.

Someone with a strong constitution/stomach (i.e. the people who can browse 4chan while eating) might find this work relatively leisurely/tame for decent pay and flexible hours if adapted to a gig-economy model. I mean, there's a whole class of sick fucks who watch the stuff on reddit's /r/watchpeopledie for no compensation.

Might end up with less mental health problems if this type of desensitized personality was leveraged for this nasty-but-necessary job instead of recruiting from naive 19-year-old kids or whoever in between retail jobs and exploiting them in atrocious work conditions until they get PTSD.




"relatively leisurely/tame for decent pay and flexible hours"

Uhh, this doesn't sound at all like the stories of driving Uber that I've heard.

I don't think any of the people in the article would be doing this job if they had other options that paid as well, so I don't exactly see how your idea would improve their lives.


You can't use random people because of privacy concerns - enforcing NDA on random gig contractors would be impossible.




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