[Databite No. 156] Hierarchy | Generative AI's Labor Impacts
Data & Society
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The Ubiquity and Exploitation of Data Workers
The speaker highlights that everyone is involved in data work, including writers and artists whose work is used to produce data, and individuals whose images are used as training data for AI. Even activities like completing recap check quizzes involve labeling data for AI systems. The speaker also raises concerns about the exploitation of workers involved in large-scale data work, such as those in crowdsourcing and micro work, who are paid minimal amounts without job security and work under precarious labor conditions.
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