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🧵…weiter in dieser Tootreihe, wie IT zur Ausbeutung für den kapitalistischen Profit genutzt wird. Dies zeigt nun @algorithmwatch ausführlich auf.

»Gig Economy – Wie KI-Training einen globalen Schwarzmarkt für Clickwork-Jobs erschaffen hat:
Unternehmen, die Daten für das Training von KI aufbereiten, überlassen ihr Personalrecruiting Kriminellen, die vom internationalen Lohndumping profitieren«

👉 algorithmwatch.org/de/schwarzm

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"[...] Before the Internet, it would really difficult to find someone, sit them down for 10 minutes and get them to work for you, and then fire them after those 10 munutes.

But with technology, you can actually find them, pay them the tiny amount of money and then get rid of them when you don't need them.[...]"