Milagros Miceli

"'Without data workers, tech companies do not have a product,' @milamiceli.bsky.social said. 'So there should be space for bargaining power.'" www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay theguardian.com

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• The International Trade Centre estimates transcription, data-entry, translation and web-research jobs for Kenyan refugees have declined by about 50% since 2022.
• RWS-owned platform AOP Connect pays contributors through discretionary 'rewards' of up to $500 from a shared pool of $9,000, with no guaranteed wages.
• Scale AI's subsidiary Remotasks closed Kenya operations in 2024, cutting a 500–1,000 shilling ($3–$6) daily pay band for annotators.

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"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations. url…

Whose Categories? Whose AI? dair-institute.org View on Bluesky →

"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance." From @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data workers. data-workers.…

“This is Capitalism”: Apple’s Hidden Data Workers at the Shadows of the AI Boom, by Luciana data-workers.org View on Bluesky →

"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations. url…

Whose Categories? Whose AI? dair-institute.org View on Bluesky →

What happens to consent in a workplace where refusing a request means losing work? Find out in the new report by James Mojez Oyange, one of the workers whose face, voice and documents were collected by the companies that employed him. data-workers.org/mojez/

“Just Send us Pictures of Your feet”: Consent and Biometric Extraction in the AI Supply Chain, by James Oyange data-workers.org View on Bluesky →

What happens to consent in a workplace where refusing a request means losing work? Find out in the new report by James Mojez Oyange, one of the workers whose face, voice and documents were collected by the companies that employed him. data-workers.org/mojez/

“Just Send us Pictures of Your feet”: Consent and Biometric Extraction in the AI Supply Chain, by James Oyange data-workers.org View on Bluesky →

Ich habe mit @milamiceli.bsky.social über die Arbeitsbedingungen von Data Workers gesprochen. Also von jenen Menschen, die unter prekären Bedingungen unsere KIs trainieren oder grausliche Inhalte von Social Media Plattformen löschen, damit sie uns erspart bleiben. oe1.orf.at/p…

Die Menschen hinter der KI | DI | 20 10 2026 | 17:55 oe1.orf.at View on Bluesky →