Merge pull request 'Add a labor section' (#189) from add-labor-section into main

Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/189
Reviewed-by: Max <cloudymax@noreply.codeberg.org>

README.md

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
   * [Legal Ramifications](#legal-ramifications)
   * [Stolen Training Data](#stolen-training-data)
   * [Environmental Impact](#environmental-impact)
+  * [Labor](#labor)
   * [Poor Code Quality](#poor-code-quality)
     * [Infosec risks](#infosec-risks)
   * [Healthy and Safety](#healthy-and-safety)
@@ -490,6 +491,18 @@ To start learning a bit more, you can checkout the wikipedia page on [Environmen
 - [MIT News: Generative AI’s environmental impact](https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117)
 - [MIT Technology Review: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/)
 
+## Labor
+
+AI usage and normalization contributes to labor violations in many ways that are obvious and some you may not be aware of.
+
+On one hand, many things that you think are "AI" are actually humans in another country pretending to be an AI chatbot for you for either extremely low wages or in some cases, no wages e.g. prison labor. This is particularly common for "friend"/"sex" bots, but it is also extremely common in the image/video identification. You can find a bit more info at the following links:
+
+- [Long hours and low wages: the human labour powering AI’s development](https://theconversation.com/long-hours-and-low-wages-the-human-labour-powering-ais-development-217038)
+- [OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic](https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/)
+- ['AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back](https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/)
+- [These Prisoners Are Training AI: In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.](https://web.archive.org/web/20260108224812/https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/)
+- [Amazon grocery stores previously reported to use AI actually used people in India](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4?op=1)
+
 ## Poor Code Quality
 
 Vibe coding / agentic workflows result in poorer code quality, and relaxed oversight practices. These effects may be compounded by the common practice of using additional LLM-based tooling to provide code-reviews.