"It’s our talent and our labor that’s fueled the current gains in AI... and because we made it, we have the power to change it." Krista Pawlowski from @turkopticon.bsky.social reminds us how organized workers can shape the future of tech. inthesetimes.com/article/amaz...

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Using data from the Data Work Landscape combined with original data, Cunyan Ma visualized the locations of workers involved in data work, the platforms that employ them, and the AI companies that contract with those platforms. www.ai-materiality-map.org/data-workers/

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"Meta-acquired Assured Robot Intelligence along with Handshake AI and Mercor are among those accused of deliberately misclassifying data annotators, engineers & others to dodge minimum wage, overtime & other employment benefits afforded to employees." news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

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“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Here I talk a bit about the decline of Mturk and a bit of reassurance that @turkopticon.bsky.social is still here for the worker, no matter where you land. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/a...

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