Once again: what comfortable people are calling "artificial intelligence" or "machine learning" is just "repurposed labor from underpaid people in the global south".

https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots

And - once again - we're using a thin veneer of software to hide extractive-resource colonialism.

AI Is a Lot of Work

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions to support OpenAI, Google, Meta, and every other major tech company. As AI becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

The Verge
@mhoye I am Jack's complete lack of surprise