Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass – An Urgent Investigation into the Invisible Human Labor Powering AI and the Digital Economy

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Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri reveal the hidden human labor that allows artificial intelligence to function. While many believe algorithms run the internet, this investigation proves that a vast global workforce actually performs the manual tasks of content moderation, data labeling, and image recognition. These invisible workers provide the human judgment nece…

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