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Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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How to Ensure That Your Content Is Not Toxic or Hateful

The book is a way to show again the sort of human army of labor that often props up these so-called automated systems. Things like content moderation which has got and quite a bit of research more recently I would say is done by huge amounts of people who work in this space. A lot of these sort of affect of trauma gets offloaded um to these people who then have to deal with it. That's the growing I think growing sphere of labor in many ways, what grants are called ghost work.

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