AI’s gold mine has invisible workers
Watch on YouTube There is another uncomfortable aspect to the expression “gold mine.” We talk about a founder’s success, but barely about the people who did the work. This is an essential point. Artificial intelligence production chains include people who annotate images, review texts, and compare responses, sometimes from countries far from
There is another uncomfortable aspect to the expression “gold mine.” We talk about a founder’s success, but barely about the people who did the work. This is an essential point. Artificial intelligence production chains include people who annotate images, review texts, and compare responses, sometimes from countries far from the offices where the models are designed. The International Labour Organization has studied how this digital work is distributed unevenly. And not all tasks are harmless. Reviewing violent or abusive content can take a serious personal toll. Yes. Conditions vary across projects and companies; it would be unfair to attribute a single practice to the entire sector. But talking about an “automatic” technology without acknowledging its workers erases part of its costs. It also makes it harder to ask who gets paid for the value created and who bears the burden of the work.
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