crowdwork
TPG
2023-07
A deep dive into annotation for machine learning, with an increasing focus on emotional content and contexts
Artificial intelligence may make some jobs obsolete but it has given a new life to a group of people who play an unglamorous but critical role in machine learning: first generation women workers in …
TPG
2020-09
Javier Lloret Pardo - Annotators View Image Annotators constitute the hidden labour of AI vision. The current ubiquitous techniques of image classification, segmentation and scene description …
TPG
2020-09
HUMAN COMPUTERS is a project that investigates the relationships between computing and labor organisation. The project is a media archaeology research that starts with the simulacra of a computing …
The Future Is Here!, the title of Mimi Onuoha’s video project reflecting the human side of crowdsourced image labelling, is spot on. The stories I have been told by crowd workers from across the globe doing this work full-time indeed often have an eerily Gibsonian ring to them. Especially the stories from Venezuela.
This labelling job has made me very observant. I have found pictures that made me think “if I had taken such a picture, then I would know what is everything.” For instance, in a picture of a …
TPG
2019-04
i will tell you everything Manetta Berends, 2015 training set = “contemporary encyclopaedia” In the process of making an encyclopaedia, categories are decided on wherein various objects …
Sitting in the sun at a tech company cafeteria, this former Google worker described a year spent immersed in some of the darkest content available on the Internet. His role at the tech company mainly …