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“Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work...
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Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence...
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As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories...
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The rise of the fancy freelancer
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Amid tech layoffs, contract work isn’t looking so bad. Christine Ruiz left her 9-to-5 job last summer to do the same work as a contractor instead. In both places, she’s a compliance manager, the person...
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Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. | Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images
As tech giants like Microsoft and Go...
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Oil company profits are at a record high. It won’t last.
ExxonMobil netted its biggest year ever of $56 billion profits after oil and gas price spikes from the war in Ukraine. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Exxon, BP, and the rest of the oil industry aren’t pre...
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What really happened to AP African American studies
A student takes notes during an AP African American studies class on November 1, 2022, in Colorado. The course is part of a national pilot class that about 60 schools nationwide are participating in. | RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Grou...
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Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things
Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella introduces Bing, now with AI. | Courtesy of Dan DeLong/Microsoft
Google bookended Microsoft’s big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own. Microsoft has official...
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Is the economy kind of good now?
It might be time to feel a little less bad about the economy. | Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images
If this is a recession, it is a weird one. It might be time to open up a perhaps surprising possibility here, at least if you’ve...
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National News
“Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work...
National News
Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence...
National News
As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories...
National News
Controversial Bari Weiss pick pops up at bizarre galaxy-brained ‘Nostradamus’ wedding
Ross Douthat, the former New York Times columnist recently hired by CBS News chief Bari Weiss as a "60 Minutes" correspondent, has a side gig his new bosses may not have anticipated – officiating weddings for Silicon Valley's AI elite.The conservative commentator officiated the wedding…
