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For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social
The Filipino virtual assistants running LinkedIn engagement networks - Rest of World restofworld.org
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🚨 Our new paper, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝, co-authored with @yale.edu colleagues, Theodore Kim, Alexa Schor, and @avmenon.bsky.social, will be published at @facct.bsky.social 2026. 🔗 Read the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835
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AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-training-jobs-expert-replacement/?utm_campaign=row-social
I refused to train the AI that could replace me restofworld.org
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Great paper by a 🌟 group ( @posada.website) that shows the "annotation pipeline as a site of epistemic contestation" & how 'ground truth' is "a sociotechnical artifact manufactured through a sequence of deliberate & often invisible choices," including labor conditions dl.acm.o…
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“Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center” via Time Magazine time.com/article/2026...
Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center time.com
𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐬, offers a timely and critical reflection on the societal risks posed by artificial intelligence. It's arguments resonate with many of the findings and arguments in our field of research, including several points I make in 𝑷𝒍…
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Behind every AI answer. Every filtered feed. Every recommendation that knows you a little too well. There are people. Millions of data workers—annotators, content moderators, AI trainers—whose labor makes the AI economy run. techequity.us/ai-supply-ch...
Tackling the AI supply chain - TechEquity Collaborative techequity.us
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