The Verge's Josh Jezza went inside an AI factory to look at the labor involved. He found a lot of work that was "excruciatingly detailed" The workers are unemployed whenever they're not needed and then expected to be on demand, he says. It raises questions about whether we should trust machines with our personal data.
We are used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza pulls back the curtain on the vast network of human labor that powers AI.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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