mastodon 4.7.3Sociologist + Computer Scientist|
ground-truth data, labor, power |
Research Group Lead @Weizenbaum_Institut@social.bund.de |
Researcher @DAIR@dair-community.social
🇦🇷💚she/ella/mami
RE: @milamiceli@dair-community.social
Pocas veces me verán recomendar algo con tanto énfasis como este fanzine sobre quienes filtran lo peor de internet para que el resto no tengamos que verlo. Lectura obligatoria si realmente querés saber lo que es la moderación de contenido.
Disponible también en español: https://data-workers.org/horacio/
🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Barcelona-based content moderator Horacio Espinosa translates his workplace ethnography into a heartbreaking yet powerful zine.
If you use social media, you'll want to read and share this: https://data-workers.org/horacio-en/
🚨NEW INQUIRY FROM DWI! - Behind the Face of AI🚨
In this short comic, two data workers describe their job impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards.
🚨 NEW DATA WORKERS' INQUIRY WORK OUT NOW!!
A Brazilian TikTok moderator, pseudonymized as Lúcio, analyzes the systems designed to extract ever-growing productivity from content moderators and how they operate to harm workers.
Download and read the report at data-workers.org/lucio/
📅 This Friday, April 17
⏱️ 9AM PT / 6PM CEST
Join @DAIR@dair-community.social for a conversation on border & surveillance tech covering:
• Our latest projects on refugees & AI
• A panel with @RespondCrisis@spore.social
• A workshop to imagine alternative tech futures.
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
What a privilege it was to join Congreso Futuro, the largest Science and Technology event in Latin America, in Chile 🇨🇱!
I spoke on the main stage in Santiago, traveled south to give a talk in Chillán, joined the colloquium "Pensar la IA desde el Sur," discussed AI regulation at the Ministry of Science, and even met President Boric at La Moneda!
En tiempos de cientificidio y oscurantismo en mi país, estoy orgullosa de ser la primera científica argentina reconocida por la revista TIME como una de las 100 personas más influyentes a nivel mundial en el campo de la inteligencia artificial.
https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305825/milagros-miceli/
📢NEW INQUIRY‼️
Data workers see the internet’s worst, so the rest of us don’t have to.
Former content moderator and clinical psychologist, Kauna Malgwi, collaborated with DWI to design a mental health plan tailored to data workers' needs: https://data-workers.org/kauna/
📣 We're excited to co-organize a transnational data worker assembly together with @superrr@social.tchncs.de & Data Workers' Inquiry on September 16-17 at @Weizenbaum_Institut@social.bund.de in Berlin.
While the first day is closed-door, we’ll host a public event on the 17th.
👉 Program and registration: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/who-is-really-fueling-your-ai/
Proud to be included in Business Insider’s AI Power List, which highlights the 25 most influential people in AI this year.
This recognition reflects not only my research trajectory, but more importantly, the critical role data workers play in the AI industry and the urgent need to do better by them.
The murder of Palestinian civilians is enabled with the support of tech companies, researchers, and practitioners. I'm proud to be a part of the @DAIR@dair-community.social
team as we refuse silence in the face of this injustice and demand a #CeasefireNOW to #StopGazaGenocide.
Read the statement here: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/palestine-10-25-23/
RE: @milamiceli@dair-community.social
This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that all pieces in the DWI repository can be used as classroom material.
Our students deserve to know that chatbots in their favorite social media and messaging apps rely on precarized workers.
🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Joan Kinyua from Data Labelers Association discusses beginnings, gratitude, and partnerships in this piece.
Data Workers' Inquiry is an active partner of the DLA, and we remain united in the fight for the rights of data workers worldwide!
🚨 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲!
In a clear intimidation attempt, TikTok threatened to dismiss one of the strike organizers. Out of a team of more than 30 employees, it is precisely the worker who took part in the strike who is to be fired.