$30 and a Lifetime of Liability

co-written with UnitBuilds , who built most of this out loud in the comments of my last piece. I recently wrote about the $30. someone in cambodia or kenya, paid under $30 to complete a biometric verification step on behalf of a stranger, so a developer somewhere could access an ai model that's geo-blocked where they live. I framed it as exploitation. it is. but I stopped at the harvesting. UnitBuilds didn't stop there. over a series of comments, he walked through what happens after the $30 —…