AI is going to make your job even harder

"Your Job" probably doesn't apply to most people here. I mean, the fact that "content moderation" is even a job is kind of saying something. In the 80s and 90s this was mostly volunteer work.

There is some argument to be made that as the volume and difficulty of the work goes up, that pay would also increase, so it's not necessarily fair to say that when AI gets super good and handles all the easy cases, that the workers would still be only paid minimum wage.

If you are literally only asking humans in morally or ethically dubious situations, then that sounds like a specialized skill. I.e. one you'd pay a premium to hire someone with a college education and background in psychology or ethics who is used to thinking about things like that.

Right now, people are paid minimum wage because, hey, I'd guess that 99% of the time, someone uploads a porn video and it's trivial to tell in 0.1 seconds flat that it's against the rules. I don't want to suggest the job is easy (watching the worst of humanity 8 hours a day will certainly drain you) but I just wanted to point out that this is an entire industry of jobs that simply didn't exist 20-30 years ago. It's not necessarily correct to assume that it will remain unchanged 20-30 years from now.