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Die Doku ist noch bis zum 28.05. in der arte Mediathek verfügbar 📺
@milamiceli.bsky.social @sixtus.net
OMG, congrats @bzfzhang.bsky.social!!!
Behind the Face of AI 💥 «¿Sabías que podes estar hablando con un trabajador precarizado en vez de un chatbot? No es automatización completa. Es trabajo humano desplazado hacia el ocultamiento, donde la precarización no se nota tanto» 🎯 @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that all pieces in the DWI can be used as classroom material.
Our students deserve to know that chatbots in their favorite social media and messaging apps rely on precarized workers.
➡️ data-workers.org/france/
Our final Sundance event is a FREE, VIRTUAL panel on a topic that we don't talk nearly enough about: the unseen labor costs of the AI industry.
More info below but here's the sign-up link, it's tomorrow morning!
From Lúcio's report: “This account demonstrates that the challenges of moderation go far beyond graphic and disturbing content. They are rooted in a business model that treats human beings as disposable resources.”
Full report available at data-workers.org/lucio/
Three images of Milagros Miceli giving a talk in Chillan, Chile
Milagros Miceli dressed in a tropical-patterned blazer next to President Gabriel Boric at La Moneda
Audience at the opening of Congreso Futuro at the Parliament of Chile
Milagros Miceli at the main stage of Congreso Futuro
What a privilege it was to join @congresofuturo.bsky.social in Chile 🇨🇱!
I spoke on the main stage in Santiago, traveled south to give a talk in Chillán, joined the colloquium "Pensar la IA desde el Sur," discussed AI regulation at the Ministry of Science, and even met President Boric at La Moneda!
Proud to be included in Business Insider’s AI Power List, which highlights the 25 most influential people in AI this year.
This recognition reflects not only my research trajectory, but more importantly, the key role data workers play in the AI industry and the urgent need to do better by them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDbUHM1a0U
«A veces la gente cree que, por ejemplo, está hablando con un chatbot sexual y en realidad es un trabajador de Kenia precarizado»
No dejen de ver esta entrevista de @norabar.bsky.social con @milamiceli.bsky.social derribando mitos frutos del hype en torno a la IA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDb...
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
Qué miedo da esto!👇
pizza 🍕 @pizza990 This doesn't just put artists at risk, it puts every Twitter user at risk. Anyone can use AI to edit images of real people posted on this platform, simply a family photo, PAST OR PRESENT. Why is this enabled by default without any consent of the people who shared those images? https://x.com/pizza990/status/2003889484904206767?s=20
🚨 Nueva función de Twitter/X para fomentar el ABUSO y la violación de derechos. Ahora cualquier usuario podrá editar a través de Grok cualquier imagen de cualquier usuario de la plataforma, sean obras de arte, fotos familiares, etc. No hay opción para desactivarlo o impedirlo 🚨
📷 @pizza990 on X
Must read new report from @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social co-researcher Michael Geoffrey Asia. Find more at data-workers.org and read more about the DWI project at www.dair-institute.org/projects/dat...
Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.
Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.
This report co-prepared by @dairinstitute.bsky.social is *horrifying*. data-workers.org/wp-content/u...
It turns out that, yes, you can give cis people gender dysphoria by forcing them to do immersive sexual roleplay in shifts, without regard to their gender identity and sexuality.
gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Or when the CEO of Fireflies admitted that his supposedly AI-powered transcription service originally ran on “two guys surviving on pizza“?
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Or the CEO of shopping startup Nate, who was charged with fraud for telling investors and customers that their system was powered by AI, but instead used human labor in the Philippines and Romania?
fortune.com/2025/04/11/a...
Remember the Amazon “Just Walk Out” supermarkets that were marketed as automated but actually relied on thousands of data workers in India?
www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just...
But Michael's story isn't an exception. AI impersonation is far more widespread than most people think.
Cover of the essay. It depicts a Black man, visibly tired and sad, holding a bleading heart that reads The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 NEW PAPER!
“Research doesn't have to be exploitative.”
If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you.
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
I'm thrilled to see this piece in the world. Through it, Dr. Milagros Miceli and her team have put some language to the worker-led methodology which they have developed.
Thank you, Karen! Your work has been a great source of inspiration as we developed the methodology
In sum, this work is not only a methodological account but a proposal for reorienting AI research toward worker-led knowledge rather than extraction.
Read the full article here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Finally, WIRM fosters what Gramsci called "organic intellectuals" embedded in the material conditions and collective struggles of their class. It cultivates networks of solidarity and tools for analysis generated from within worker communities.
See for instance: data-workers.org/DLA/