Today is International Day of the Disappeared. Meron Estefanos (Meron Estefanos) wrote a piece imagining a future where families of the missing find closure. "I picture the mother who's been calling me for 19 years...being able to give her an answer that ends her agonizing wait."

To say each situation is unique is disingenuous AWS Support. When hundreds of workers are being suspended at the same time, with more added every day, that is a system error.

Imagine submitting a project after 10 hours of work only to be told that you have to redo it, and the reason being unclear instructions, or lack of training. Join us as Milagros Miceli hosts Fasica Berhane #StopTigrayFamine Yasser Al Rayes Adrienne Williams and Laurenz to discuss this issue

Workers with suspended payments accounts are recieving a wide variety of advice, explanation and department hand off from Amazon MTurk. We are becoming concerned that this is a data breach they are trying to hide. Our payments accounts have personal information in them. FTC

Calling all researchers! Join us for our Data Workers' Inquiry panel on Sept 9 to hear what training data workers need from actual data workers. I cannot stress how valuable and important this conversation will be! Register below and share with coworkers! #AcademicTwitter

Damning report out today from Worker Info Exchange, revealing the dire need for public data on safety, labour, and environmental impacts of gig economy platforms like Uber & Deliveroo. I'm pleased to have contributed (w/ Jake Stein) to some of the data analysis - more soon!

Berlin is often described as a city where artists from different background, including refugees, can freely express themselves. But it is not simple. By Zaidoun Hajjar فسحة ثقافية فلسطينية #Berlin #Art #Culture untoldmag.org/on-berlins-cul…

"The reviewers’ overall feedback was that they felt AI summaries may be counterproductive and create further work because of the need to fact-check and refer to original submissions which communicated the message better and more concisely." crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…

Don't miss this online panel on Monday if you're curious about how AI is truly built! We'll dive into how and why data workers are trained to "think like machines." Register here: tinyurl.com/data-workers-i… And please help us spread the word!🙏

What kind of job training did you get when you first started out? What training do you think #DataWorkers get, who shape #AI and any online platform you can think of? Join us next Monday with the Data Workers' Inquiry! 🗓️ September 9, 5 pm - online events.zoom.us/ev/AuQX3OXr7Os…

Data Workers Inquiry Talk series: Hidden truth about data AI training We marvel at AI, but do we know what it really takes to train AI systems? Spoiler: It's not machines. It's humans. And next week, we're asking the crucial question: What training do the the trainers get? 🤔1/7

Here is a shocker: You are an AI trainer! 🤯 Yes, YOU. Right now. For free! Ever solved a CAPTCHA? Congratulations, you're feeding the AI beast. Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon's Adrienne Williams has a name for YOU "zombie trainers" 🧟‍♂️ But who's really pulling the strings? And at what cost? 4/7

To really dissect this topic, we have speakers from the trenches spanning several countries; Milagros Miceli Adrienne Williams Yasser Al Rayes Fasica Berhane #StopTigrayFamine and Laurenz Sachenbacher. They have seen it all, and now they are spilling the beans 5/7

Si Mercado Libre recibió 100 millones de dólares de subsidio y ahora dice que va a invertir 75 millones en el país, en realidad se está comiendo 25 millones y el resto lo estamos invirtiendo nosotros..

Proud to be included on TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2024! x.com/TIME/status Find out why Kauna Malgwi made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence Source:time.com/time100ai Voice of African Content Moderators #EthicalAI #TIME100AI #contentmoderation

Maybe the 100 most influential people in AI are actually 100 data labelers from the philippines

📢This Monday September 9 at 8am PT/5pm CET will be the next panel in our Data Workers’ Inquiry series, where we compare the type of training data workers need vs what they receive instead. ➡️Register at events.zoom.us/ev/AuQX3OXr7Os…. More details on the speakers in this thread 👇🏼

As a reminder, ➡️future talks in the series at data-workers.org/events and you can register now for the ones you want to attend. ➡️The repository of reports, animation shorts, essays, vlogs, podcasts and more produced by data workers is at data-workers.org.

📢Register for the next event in our Data Workers' Inquiry speakers series on September 9 @ 8am PDT/5pm CET: events.zoom.us/ev/AuQX3OXr7Os… ➡️Repository @ data-workers.org ➡️Event schedule @ data-workers.org ➡️Donate to the workers @ paypal.com/ncp/payment/VN…

This Monday, Yasser Al Rayes, a Syrian data worker and community researcher with Data Workers' Inquiry, will discuss how task instructions and unpaid training often fail to address ambiguity in data. RSVP to attend: tinyurl.com/data-workers-i… Learn more: data-workers.org/yasser/