Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

What about the impact on the terms and conditions and employment experiences of workers? I do not know whether the Minister of State saw the story last week in TheJournal.ie about workers in Covalen, which is an company outsourced by Meta to train AI. Their workers have joined the CWU. The Minister of State should read the story, which is pretty horrendous. One employee said: "Every day, 150 times a day, I wrote prompts asking an AI how to kill or hurt myself. You cannot imagine what that is like. Eventually – and I really think it would be the same for anyone – those thoughts started to feel normal." Another said: "They are there at your desk saying, ‘Come on, we need you to do this faster, it’s meant to take 30 seconds,’ and it’s like seriously? Do you think this is easy? Pretending to be a paedophile all day?” It is really horrendous stuff in order to train AI. What should be done to protect those workers?