Ghost Workers
(2021, original release: 2019)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
Java Films, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12141446
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

We’re at the beginning of an artificial intelligence revolution that promises to change everything. Already, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa have become a part of our daily life. But in order to run their applications, digital giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook, employ an army of invisible labour. These are disposable workers, paid as little as 10 cents an hour to feed information into compter systems. They receive neither benefits nor contract and normal labour law don’t apply to them. Whilst millions of men and women are training artificial intelligence for next to nothing, others are being hired and hide out of sight to clean up social networks. We went undercover as one of these web cleaners, working as a content moderator for Facebook. To meet the workers hiding behind your screen, we’re taking you to the factory of the future, one of the digital economy’s best kept secrets

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by Java Films in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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