Below are posts associated with the “digital labor” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely - The Verge'
What I appreciate about coverage of this from The Verge and Techdirt is the way that it draws attention to questions of digital labor.
🔗 linkblog: Voice Actors Push Back Against Their Voices Being Used by AI'
Interesting and important read.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare, and we ought to be concerned | Ars Technica'
Important points in here.
quoted again about Gas app in EducationWeek
This week, Discord announced that it has acquired the Gas social media app popular among secondary students. Presumably in response, Alyson Klein ran an explainer today at EducationWeek on the subject of the app. In doing this, she re-ran a quote that I provided to her for a December article that she also wrote:
“It feels a little exploitative to me,” said Spencer Greenhalgh, an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s school of information sciences. “They know teenagers are insecure and they want to know what their friends think about them.”
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive | Time'
Looks like the job of AI training is as awful as the job of content moderation.
quoted in EducationWeek about 'Gas' social media app
A few weeks ago, thanks to a recommendation from my colleague and friend Josh Rosenberg, I was contacted by Alyson Klein at EducationWeek to talk about the “Gas” social media app that’s become popular among high schoolers lately. Klein’s article was published last night, and I was happy to see that I’d been quoted in the article.
To be honest, I wasn’t familiar with the app before Klein reached out, but it only took a few minutes of research for me to figure out that I didn’t like it very much. According to the website, Gas is:
some thoughts on Gab pushback against research on Gab
I’m not going to link to it, but I am fascinated by a recent post on the Gab blog where Andrew Torba announced some new features to help Gab users push back against research on the platform. Not only do I have two or three ongoing projects using Gab data (one is in the very, very early stages and—ironically—uses Gab blog posts), but some of what Torba wrote also aligned with some of the (fortunately mild) trolling my co-author, Amy Chapman, and I have experienced because of my work on the far-right-influenced DezNat hashtag in Mormon Twitter. So, I thought I’d write up some of what stood out to me in the post.