"Diese sogenannten Culture Hacking Parties zeigen sehr eindrucksvoll, wie sich in kurzer Zeit Lösungen für akute Herausforderungen schaffen lassen, wenn Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten gemeinsam daran arbeiten."

#kaarst #krefeld #eventhub @altbot #digitallabor #reallabor #kultur #DigitaleSouveranität #digitalisierung

What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

I'm excited to join the @indl global community in Santiago, Chile, for #INDL7 in a few days. Can't join us in vibrant Santiago? You can still be part of the experience by watching the livestreaming of keynotes and plenary sessions. https://diplab.eu/are-you-ready-for-the-indl-7-conference-a-milestone-in-digital-labor-research/ #digitallabor #futureofwork #work #labor #chile #santiago

Today, AI is still powered by millions of data workers, both men and women. In Victorian England, many of the same data tasks were performed by "lady computers". Though they were recruited at Cambridge colleges, they got paid as little as £4 per month. Same old story.

#DiPLab PhD students are doing great research! @noisheek explores disinformation and digital dispossession of Indian workers, while Diego Rivera looks at microwork in Chile. Attend their talks live at our monthly webinar on Wed., June 12, 2PM CEST. Register here https://diplab.eu/diego-rivera-and-aishik-saha-are-guest-speakers-at-our-diplab-seminar-wed-12-june-2024-200-pm-cet/ #india #disinformation #chile #ai #data #digitallabor #crowdwork

Extended deadline!
Want to travel to Santiago, Chile and join a vibrant community of digital labor scholars? Send us your abstract for #INDL7 "Digital Labor and Power Dynamics" by June 9, 2024. Don't miss out! Submit now https://www.indl.network/indl-7/ #digitallabor #platformeconomy #ia #gigwork #globalization #data #algorithmicmanagement #latam #chile #conference

The DiPLab crew was at the European Parliament a few days ago to organize a panel titled "Meet the human workers behind AI". We listened to the testimonies of microworkers, cloud workers, and internet moderators. Their voices, their struggles, and the solidarity of other platform workers. https://diplab.eu/diplab-on-the-european-parliaments-transnational-forum-of-alternatives-to-uberisation/

Yo folks, a little update on upcoming events over the next couple of weeks.
Feb. 21-22, 2024 Brussels - 4th Transnational Forum on the Alternatives to Uberization. #DiPLab will facilitate a panel featuring microworkers, cloudworkers, internet moderators .https://left.eu/events/transnational-forum-of-alternatives-to-uberisation-4/
#DigitalMicrowork #cloudwork #digitallabor #crowdwork #moderation

#SocialMedia #ArabWorld #TrollFarms #Disinformation #DigitalLabor: "This article investigates the production culture and routines of “troll farms” in three Arab countries—Tunisia, Egypt, and Iraq—from a production studies approach. A production studies approach enables us to focus on the working conditions of paid trolls. We employed qualitative methods to look inside the “black box” of Arab troll farms. From February to April 2020, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight disinformation workers at both managerial and staff levels. We propose to understand disinformation work as a specific type of digital labor, characterized by very intense shifts and emotionally burdensome daily tasks, absence of legal job contracts, and highly surveilled work environments. The article contributes to understand disinformation practices outside and beyond the West; it situates disinformation activities within the broader context of digital media industries; it provides a detailed analysis of the features that distinguish troll farms in the Arab world from those that emerged in other regions of the Global South; and it reconnects the research on disinformation to digital labor studies."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231224713

What do deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, chatGPT figurehead Sam Altman, and deranged right-wing tycoon Elon Musk have in common? They all advocate some form of "effective AI regulation." On Nov. 9, in my inaugural lecture of the academic year at the Social Science Institute of the University of Lisbon, I'll discuss this and its links to digital labor. https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/evento/palestra-sedas-nunes-abertura-do-ano-academico #ai #portugal #lisboa #digitallabor #regulation #AIAct

Si vous êtes à Tananarive le samedi 4 novembre 2023 à 10h, je présenterai mon ouvrage « En attendant les robots. Enquête sur le travail du clic » dans le cadre de la manifestation Novembre Numérique de l’Institut Français de Madagascar.

“You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to (…) perform all acts, including AI and ML training and testing.” https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/ #digitallabor #ai #exploitation #data #privacy

"Merci à vous tou•tes d'avoir vérifié les réponses de #ChatGPT pendant des mois, ainsi améliorant notre modèle. Après avoir extrait votre #digitallabor, nous sommes désormais prêts à vous faire payer un abonnement pour pouvoir accéder à ce même service." https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/

What a doozy.
New chatGPT revelations.

Kenyan workers paid less than $2/p/h were required to read through large tracts of harmful and abusive content, in order to label and teach the AI what was bad:

“To get those labels, OpenAI sent tens of thousands of snippets of text to an outsourcing firm in Kenya, beginning in November 2021. Much of that text appeared to have been pulled from the darkest recesses of the internet. Some of it described situations in graphic detail like child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest.”

The hiring company to which this work was outsourced claims to be about ‘ethical AI’ and boasts of having lifted people out of poverty. But what were the actual ethics and harms considered in doling out this sort of lowly paid, trauma inducing work?

I’m returned once again to the sombre thought that the digital world and its markets, for all its hype about automation, AI, and delivery at the press of a button, is absolutely still reliant on the exploitation and labour of ordinary flesh and blood. It’s the case whether we’re considering content moderation or your poor local courier driver trying to put food in the table with umpteen contracts.

It’s the dank Victorian factory, still. But it’s everywhere, all at once, now.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make #ChatGPT Less Toxic
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
#DigitalLabor No surprises
Content warning : various sexual violence mention