Hyderabad, Feb. 21 -- Every day, 26-year-old Monsumi Murmu watches at least 800 videos and images of violence, sexual abuse and harm in her village in Jharkhand, getting paid roughly Rs 20,000 a month to do so. She is one of thousands of Indian women working as content moderators for global technology companies, reviewing explicit material flagged by algorithms to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems, according to a report in The Guardian.

Murmu does this work from her home's veranda in one of the few places where a mobile signal is accessible. Balancing her laptop on a mud slab built into the veranda wall, she logs in from her home to watch hours of pornographic, explicit content flagged by a computer program to classify as possib...