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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine

Communications Workers of America

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
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Susi Arnott
@SusiArnott@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@beep
"...the AI industry is driving a race to the bottom for workers across industrialized and developing countries alike..."
#LLMs

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@SusiArnott There are some good lines in that report, and that’s one of the big ones for me.

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

There’s a terrible human cost to using these platforms, and it’s paid most dearly by the invisible tech workers who quite literally keep them running.

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