eicker.news #technews »#AI Is a Lot of Work: As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast #tasker #underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.« https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots

#AI Is a Lot of Work. As the technology becomes #ubiquitous, a vast #tasker #underclass is emerging and not going anywhere. #AI #learns by finding #patterns in enormous quantities of #data, but first that data has to be sorted, #tagged by people, a vast #workforce mostly hidden behind machines. It’s difficult and #repetitive work. A several-second blip of footage took eight hours to annotate, for which a college graduate in #Nairobi was paid about $10. https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots?tpcc=NL_Marketing

The Report on #HumanRights Violations in the #UnitedStates in 2022 (4/6)
IV. Worsening Subsistence Crisis among #U.S. #Underclass

The nation sees widening wealth gap, worsening living conditions for low-income groups, increasing homeless people, life-threatening drug abuse, and dropping average life expectancy. U.S. underclass is facing a severe survival crisis.
https://english.news.cn/20230328/7958d26f811e45249be9b2d9a292f0cf/c.html

Tom Waters/IFS: 'We spend more than £100bn each year on working-age benefits. About half of it now goes to families in work.... The challenge here is that the kind of work they have tended to produce has been part-time & low-paid – which generally does not serve as a stepping stone to higher-paid work further down the line';

in other words #benefits' terms engineer a class of #workers stuck in rubbish insecure & precarious jobs; a new #underclass made by #Tory policy!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/01/uk-benefit-changes-have-pushed-people-into-dead-end-low-paid-jobs-says-ifs

How the other half lives: Jordan Peele's US (2019) plays funny games with the socioeconomic disparities in the American dream. Screens today, 8.40pm at BFI Southbank NFT1 #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Doppelgängers #SocialDIvide #Underclass https://projectedfigures.com/2019/03/20/us-2019/