“Most AI tools require a huge amount of hidden labor to make them work at all. This massive effort goes beyond the labor of minding systems operating in real time, to the work of creating the data used to train the systems”
#AI #labor #workers #data #economy
https://restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor/
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