CJEU's decision last week to refuse public access to documents on EU-funded emotion recognition at borders raises concerns. The decision cites "commercial interests", but trade secrets don't apply here and have bad consequences. Most emotion-detecting AI systems use surveillance labor outsourced to data workers in low-income countries. Global labor standards can't be enforced without transparency. https://www.article19.org/resources/eu-court-denies-full-transparency-about-emotion-recognition/ #AI #surveillance #datawork #digitallabor

“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

« Forçats du #numérique » : Comment une décision de #justice au #Kenya fragilise la sous-traitance des multinationales du #web

« On voit désormais émerger le besoin impérieux d’une #éthique de la production des systèmes d’intelligence artificielle. »

#ia #filtrage #DigitalLabor #modération #BigData #MetaData

https://theconversation.com/forcats-du-numerique-comment-une-decision-de-justice-au-kenya-fragilise-la-sous-traitance-des-multinationales-du-web-206896

Quando ero ggiòvane in Italia ascoltavo due radio storiche di movimento: @radiopopolare quando ero a Milano e @ondarossa quando ero a Roma. Ora che son vecio sono riuscito a farmi invitare da almeno una delle due, nella trasmissione "Entropia Massima" per parlare di #estrattivismo digitale, l’azione del #garanteprivacy contro #chatgpt, le #piattaforme e il #digitallabor. http://www.ondarossa.info/newstrasmissioni/entropia-massima/2023/04/estrattivismo-dati

Dans @Telerama, les révélations d’une nouvelle lanceuse d’alerte montrent le côté sombre de l’entraînement des IA de reconnaissance faciale chez Apple. Le prélèvement obligatoire de data des iPhone des employé•es est autant un problème de surveillance que de droit du travail. À quel moment ces «micro-heures sup» constituent du #digitallabor forcé? https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/ashley-gjovik-lanceuse-d-alerte-licenciee-par-apple-seule-contre-tous-7014661.php

[veille] https://ttrss.fiat-tux.fr/veille-luc.xml#tag:ttrss.fiat-tux.fr,2023-02-21:/52636485 « Meta Verified : c’était gratuit et cela ne le sera plus jamais. » https://affordance.framasoft.org/2023/02/meta-verified-etait-gratuit-mais-le-sera-plus-jamais/ Et si la prochaine grande révolution ou à tout le moins la prochaine grande évolution du web ce n... #politiquedesalgorithmes #ecologiedelinfo #réseauxsociaux #digitallabor #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/

@SDD Merci aux bénévoles qui entraînent donc une IA dont le modèle appartient à une société commerciale... si la société était américaine, par exemple, je pense que les collectivités se poseraient un peu plus de question #DigitalLabor

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 mediation 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/

#digitallabor #chatGPT

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

J'en ai marre de filer de la donnée, du digital labor, du temps de cerveau et des habitudes à des outils toxiques, faits par des mecs qui gagnent 100K annuels et qui se prétendent progressistes tandis que leur employeur lance des commandes à Foxconn.

#digitalLabor #Foxconn #capitalismeDeSurveillance

THE LABOR OF REINVENTION:
Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy by Lin Zhang: "Shedding new light on global capitalism and the digital economy by centering a non-Western perspective, Zhang vividly conveys how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China."
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-labor-of-reinvention/9780231551298
#NewBooks #Labor #Labour #DigitalLabor #Commodon #ColumbiaUPress #China #economy #capitalism #entrepreneur #innovation #FeministMediaStudies @sts @academicchatter

THE LABOR OF REINVENTION:
Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy by Lin Zhang: "Shedding new light on global capitalism and the digital economy by centering a non-Western perspective, Zhang vividly conveys how the contradictions of entrepreneurialism have played out in China."
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-labor-of-reinvention/9780231551298
#NewBooks @sts #Labor #DigitalLabor #Commodon #ColumbiaUPress #China #economy @academicchatter #capitalism #entrepreneur #FeministMediaStudies

Remember all the hours you spent generating content and testing #ChatGPT and #DALLE2 for free? Did you think that all that #digitallabor of yours was *just* for it’s for-founder Elon Musk? Turns out #microsoft is increasingly benefiting from it (and investing $10bln more in it). https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-talks-invest-10-bln-chatgpt-owner-semafor-2023-01-10/

[veille] https://ttrss.fiat-tux.fr/veille-luc.xml#tag:ttrss.fiat-tux.fr,2023-01-02:/52605090 « GPT-3 : c’est toi le Chat. » https://affordance.framasoft.org/2023/01/gpt-3-cest-toi-le-chat/ Après les générateurs d’images se prenant pour autant d’oeuvres d’art dont je vous... #intelligenceartificielle #documentnumérique #ecologiedelinfo #digitallabor

RT @AntonioCasilli

Depuis un moment les faits m’avaient donné raison, mais là même la maman d’Elon Musk vient d’admettre que Twitter c’est bien du #digitallabor. https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1604550452447690752

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AntonioCasilli/status/1604606495223697408

Again, the paper is published in Convergence: https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221145449

As always, if anyone wants to read but doesn't have access via their institution please reach out to me and I can share a PDF.

Additionally, I'm not sharing this over on the bird site, so I would greatly appreciate any boosts and/or passing this along to anyone who may be interested.

Thank you!

#commodon #MediaStudies #digitalLabor

While more accessible #captcha challenges *do* exist, there is little incentive for a company like Google to deploy them at scale because the industry lore of how they imagine reCAPTCHA users is in terms of the labor they can provide, rather than the accessibility of the Web more generally.

#commodon #MediaStudies #digitalLabor

"Whenever a user solves a reCAPTCHA task they are also performing a small amount of digital labor which produces value that is then extracted and used by Google. These users are simultaneously produced by their own labor by contributing to normative definitions of who 'counts' as an authentic Web user."

#commodon #MediaStudies #digitalLabor

Because the main incentive for Google is to develop #captcha challenges that will produce valuable AI/ML data, other important factors, such as accessibility, are not prioritized.

This means that reCAPTCHA doesn't just tell computers and humans apart, but it really tells "desirable users" and "undesirable users" apart. Not all people are equitably able to solve a reCAPTCHA, so only those who can perform such "digital labor" are viewed as ideal Web users

#commodon #MediaStudies #digitalLabor