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How Ghost Workers Power Big Tech | Big Tech is faking AI | Amazon AI is actually Indian workers
So it turns out Amazon's contactless stores were actually powered by 1000s of Indian workers. Who else had that on their 2024 bingo card? When Amazon Go was launched in 2018 they were presented as cashierless shops that ran on AI.
But today we learned that AI was actually powered by low-paid staff on the other side of the world doing the checks and balances. So unless at Amazon HQ AI stands for “Actually Indians” this should set off alarm bells.
Let's talk about Ghost Workers.
Subscribe - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0HAW8tgFA_xEmeUupuRwiA?sub_confirmation=1
Chapters -
📺 0:00 - Intro - What is Ghost Work? And why Amazon tried to make their Just Walk Out Technology look like AI but in reality it was thousands of Indian workers doing the donkey work.
📺 0:18 - Part 1 - What is Ghost Work? The official definition.
📺 1:31 - Part 2 - Background into Ghost Work and Mary L. Gray's research.
📺 2:00 - Part 3 - Which companies are using it? (Spoiler - Meta, Amazon, Google etc)
📺 2:25 - Part 4 - Amazon Machine Turk and The Turk
📺 2:55 - Part 5 - Alternative platforms to Amazon Machine Turk including Google Answers and Toloka.
📺 3:05 - Part 6 - How much do Ghost Workers get paid?
📺 3:31 - Part 7 - What kind of jobs do Ghost Workers do? (Captioning, admin, anything repetitive)
📺 4:12 - Part 8 - Red Herrings - This is just a "stop gap" until artificial intelligence can do all the work.
📺 4:51 - Part 9 - Save the worst for last. Partly for the retention and partly because you needed the contents for it. What's it like having your manager be a line of code?
OTHER VIDEOS -
Facebook -
👉 The Evil Business Model of WhatsApp - https://youtu.be/YumfmeBYPhQ
👉 How Facebook uses your period data to sell you stuff - https://youtu.be/WazCiuVKlbY
👉 Facebook Shadow Profiles explained - https://youtu.be/sR8M8hZxuPo
👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - https://youtu.be/aRWB81qrzts
👉 Can Facebook be forced to delete the algorithm? Yes, here's why. https://youtu.be/fHZftxVdeGM
Amazon -
👉 Amazon Go's toxic longterm plan - https://youtu.be/YQCpHVWxUrE
👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - https://youtu.be/ha4_2GS2_HA
Twitter -
👉 Why is Twitter so toxic - https://youtu.be/lT7e_P8rfuk
Everything else -
👉 Why Tinder ruined your dating life - https://youtu.be/pNR2We-Srro
👉 The Rise of Dark Patterns - https://youtu.be/cjMbtDcHL7k
👉 All the privacy issues in Clubhouse app - https://youtu.be/HfZJZl22mg0
👉 8 counter-arguments to common privacy misconceptions - https://youtu.be/7RcjYdn3I5U
👉 You're wrong about the value of NFTs - https://youtu.be/zfPYMRbSne4
👉 How social media has changed how we talk - https://youtu.be/gZ-nW2kRkuY
👉 Here's why you don't read the terms of service - https://youtu.be/zni2DiCQ7rU
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💬 let's chat about data / privacy / the internet on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheInternetExplorers
💬 I've also got a Discord - https://discord.gg/rGcht3SJyV
✍️ Follow on Twitter http://Twitter.com/Thismademecool
📧 Join the mailing list - https://bit.ly/30eHZ7I
✨ Join the internet explorers on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/SimonCaine
🎧 My podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ask-the-industry-podcast/id946220937
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All elements were created by me, comedian Simon Caine.
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#amazongo #ai #surveillancecapitalism
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This is the best for the algorithm... no need to read it (I've been told it's important / helpful)
Simon Caine is an English award-winning comedian, writer, author, podcaster and human based in Edinburgh Scotland. He makes a video a week, released every Sunday.
Over the last decade, he's performed all over the world, from London to NYC to Australia. His most recent show "every room becomes a panic room when you overthink enough" got 5* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe where he sold out the run.
Previously he opened for Trevor Lock, Ben Miller and Henry Ginsberg as well as gigged on the same bill as people like Terry Alderton, Mark Dolan, Matthew Crosby and Bec Hill.
He's been featured in the Huffington Post “Tweets of the Week” feature several times and had jokes/writing appeared in The Poke and other publications. He hates writing in the third person.
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By So it turns out Amazon's contactless stores were actually powered by 1000s of Indian workers. Who else had that on their 2024 bingo card? When Amazon Go was launched in 2018 they were presented as cashierless shops that ran on AI.
But today we learned that AI was actually powered by low-paid staff on the other side of the world doing the checks and balances. So unless at Amazon HQ AI stands for “Actually Indians” this should set off alarm bells.
Let's talk about Ghost Workers.
Subscribe - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0HAW8tgFA_xEmeUupuRwiA?sub_confirmation=1
Chapters -
📺 0:00 - Intro - What is Ghost Work? And why Amazon tried to make their Just Walk Out Technology look like AI but in reality it was thousands of Indian workers doing the donkey work.
📺 0:18 - Part 1 - What is Ghost Work? The official definition.
📺 1:31 - Part 2 - Background into Ghost Work and Mary L. Gray's research.
📺 2:00 - Part 3 - Which companies are using it? (Spoiler - Meta, Amazon, Google etc)
📺 2:25 - Part 4 - Amazon Machine Turk and The Turk
📺 2:55 - Part 5 - Alternative platforms to Amazon Machine Turk including Google Answers and Toloka.
📺 3:05 - Part 6 - How much do Ghost Workers get paid?
📺 3:31 - Part 7 - What kind of jobs do Ghost Workers do? (Captioning, admin, anything repetitive)
📺 4:12 - Part 8 - Red Herrings - This is just a "stop gap" until artificial intelligence can do all the work.
📺 4:51 - Part 9 - Save the worst for last. Partly for the retention and partly because you needed the contents for it. What's it like having your manager be a line of code?
OTHER VIDEOS -
Facebook -
👉 The Evil Business Model of WhatsApp - https://youtu.be/YumfmeBYPhQ
👉 How Facebook uses your period data to sell you stuff - https://youtu.be/WazCiuVKlbY
👉 Facebook Shadow Profiles explained - https://youtu.be/sR8M8hZxuPo
👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - https://youtu.be/aRWB81qrzts
👉 Can Facebook be forced to delete the algorithm? Yes, here's why. https://youtu.be/fHZftxVdeGM
Amazon -
👉 Amazon Go's toxic longterm plan - https://youtu.be/YQCpHVWxUrE
👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - https://youtu.be/ha4_2GS2_HA
Twitter -
👉 Why is Twitter so toxic - https://youtu.be/lT7e_P8rfuk
Everything else -
👉 Why Tinder ruined your dating life - https://youtu.be/pNR2We-Srro
👉 The Rise of Dark Patterns - https://youtu.be/cjMbtDcHL7k
👉 All the privacy issues in Clubhouse app - https://youtu.be/HfZJZl22mg0
👉 8 counter-arguments to common privacy misconceptions - https://youtu.be/7RcjYdn3I5U
👉 You're wrong about the value of NFTs - https://youtu.be/zfPYMRbSne4
👉 How social media has changed how we talk - https://youtu.be/gZ-nW2kRkuY
👉 Here's why you don't read the terms of service - https://youtu.be/zni2DiCQ7rU
————————————
💬 let's chat about data / privacy / the internet on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheInternetExplorers
💬 I've also got a Discord - https://discord.gg/rGcht3SJyV
✍️ Follow on Twitter http://Twitter.com/Thismademecool
📧 Join the mailing list - https://bit.ly/30eHZ7I
✨ Join the internet explorers on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/SimonCaine
🎧 My podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ask-the-industry-podcast/id946220937
————————————
All elements were created by me, comedian Simon Caine.
————————————
#amazongo #ai #surveillancecapitalism
————————————
My gear (affiliate links)
Camera - https://amzn.to/2YezaZl
Lens - https://amzn.to/2Y1yjuQ
Ring light/stand - https://amzn.to/3gTKhiI
Software - https://amzn.to/2Y449Hr
Graphic Tablet - https://amzn.to/3gOXGbX
Green screen - https://amzn.to/3ePYD1H
Phone - https://amzn.to/323MtPF
————————————
This is the best for the algorithm... no need to read it (I've been told it's important / helpful)
Simon Caine is an English award-winning comedian, writer, author, podcaster and human based in Edinburgh Scotland. He makes a video a week, released every Sunday.
Over the last decade, he's performed all over the world, from London to NYC to Australia. His most recent show "every room becomes a panic room when you overthink enough" got 5* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe where he sold out the run.
Previously he opened for Trevor Lock, Ben Miller and Henry Ginsberg as well as gigged on the same bill as people like Terry Alderton, Mark Dolan, Matthew Crosby and Bec Hill.
He's been featured in the Huffington Post “Tweets of the Week” feature several times and had jokes/writing appeared in The Poke and other publications. He hates writing in the third person.