AI tools require hidden labor for data management and content screening.

Evidence

Most AI tools require a huge amount of hidden labor to make them work at all. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 173

Categorization

• XREF: This can resonate with discussions on how unrecognized hidden labor underpins AI tools. — connects to: AI reduces job quality by devaluing human labor. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 126; Machine learning increasingly intertwines technical problems with human and social questions; AI training data is invisible yet permanently shapes deployed system behavior — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 150 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 173

Broader Connections

• AI reduces job quality by devaluing human labor. #expands (0.75) — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 126
• Automation requires active human work to organize the relinquishing of subjectivity #corroborates (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 650
• Machine learning increasingly intertwines technical problems with human and social questions #expands (0.65)
• Classification systems constitute infrastructures with political consequences in AI training. #expands (0.60) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1526