idk man psychologically scarring sounds pretty bad to me that's not normally a thing people are wanting from their job.
Maybe up to 33% of the world's population would find reading text triggers traumatic stress responses if I had to make an educated guess - not to diminish their experiences. But I'd imagine most people would just find the job boring or somewhat nauseating.
Should be trivial to significantly reduce human cost without completely removing their jobs anyway.
I am assuming you knew that though, and just enjoyed this little moment of belittling someone for their suffering. Hope it was nice. Hope you're having the day you wanted to have.
The moderators say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support.
The 51 moderators in Nairobi working on Sama’s OpenAI account were tasked with reviewing texts, and some images, many depicting graphic scenes of violence, self-harm, murder, rape, necrophilia, child abuse, bestiality and incest, the petitioners say.
You're not alone, there's likely a higher than normal percentage of HN'rs that have difficulty imagining how other people react and feel.