~366~ The Hidden Workers Behind Artificial Intelligence

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Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world’s wealthiest capitalists. It’s online work where users are asked to perform menial, small tasks for pennies. Naomi Karavani takes on the phenomenon and shows us the victims of the industry. The low-paid work includes tasks like identifying the contents of images, translating, transcribing audio, or any task that someone on the site is willing to pay for. These tasks can become abusive where workers have been sexually harassed by the people setting the tasks. Jeff Bezos has a company called Mechanical Turk that competes for microwork jobs. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in occupied territories are the target worker for the microwork industry.

Also in this episode: Naomi Karavani covers the victimization argument being used in court for Ghislaine Maxwell, Joe Biden’s flippant lies about believing in a waiver for the intellectual property of the vaccine, and more. Jaffer Khan reports on a recent victory for Indian farmworkers who had been engaged in a massive protest campaign to overturn reforms that opened their industry to exploitation. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave into the pressure and reversed the changes that the farmworkers were protesting. But the farmworkers have chosen to continue their campaign to demand more concessions. Anders Lee dives into the current debate about inflation in the US. The US has seen 6% of inflation in the last year and the talking heads of the ruling class are taking this as an opportunity to blame social spending. But does this tell the whole story? Anders takes apart the arguments of professional ruling class economist Larry Summers.

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