Once again: what comfortable people are calling "artificial intelligence" or "machine learning" is just "repurposed labor from underpaid people in the global south".
And - once again - we're using a thin veneer of software to hide extractive-resource colonialism.
I've worked in annotation for a while; lots of people don't realize you can't just shove data into an algorithm and expect it to understand what's going on. Someone needs to manually go through mountains of data and place tags. And it's largely underpaid, overworked contractors. And it's a skilled job--for language annotation you need a BA to do it.
mhoye
Silence Dogood