Many people are keen to find AI to share their personal trauma and seek real emotional connection, and to confide unknown secrets. However, the other party may be a real person. Recently, the “Data Worker Survey” international research project was disclosed.Australian company New Media Services lets real people disguise themselves as robots to chat with users.
The pretender's name is Michael Jeffrey Asia. He was an aviation school graduate. Because he failed to find a corresponding job, he accepted the position of "text chat operator" for this Australian company.
His actual job is to use a fake profile created by the company to play a virtual identity and chat with users, and he has to play 3-5 characters of different genders and personalities at the same time every day during the working day..
He often needs to take over conversations that last for several days, and he has to ensure that the reply style is consistent with the previous article to avoid users noticing abnormalities. The conversation content is mostly intimate or even explicit exchanges with lonely users.
Remuneration is settled based on the number of messages, each message is only US$0.05 (approximately RMB 0.35), but each message must reach the specified number of characters.
At the same time, Michael had to maintain a speed of typing at least 40 words per minute and keep an eye on the cumulative number of messages sent on the screen.Once his performance fails to meet the standards, he may be warned, his assignments may be reduced, or in serious cases, he may be fired.
Because he signed a mandatory confidentiality agreement with the company, he could not reveal the truth to his family. He could only lie and pretend that he was a remote IT technician responsible for handling work orders and repairing faulty servers. This also caused Michael to suffer emotional torture.
