»Artificial Artificial Intelligence«
Gigging On Amazon’s Plattform Mechanical Turk
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https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v54i217.2158Keywords:
Alienation, Artificial Intelligence, Digitalisation, Industrial Relations, Platform EconomyAbstract
This article centers Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers to examine their alienation, as they complete monotonous and repetitive microtasks from behind their screens. Confronted with various »virtual assembly lines« that produce data across the globe, their labor can be further used for machine learning specifically and Artificial Intelligence more generally. Engaging with these workers and their labor is central to general contemporary and future technological developments bound to bring their own repercussions with them – including the growing and central role of algorithms in managing the world of work.
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