28.03.24
Big Tech
The forums and groups where online gig workers discuss their tasks offered incredibly insight into how facial recognition tech relies on an army of outsourced data labellers
27.03.24
Workers logging onto a Russian gig work platform unwittingly trained facial recognition tools used to detain activists in Moscow
TBIJ can reveal that the technology used to repress dissent against Putin’s authoritarian regime is powered by unwitting gig workers in the global south
It has become theoretically possible to identify almost anyone when they are caught on video
07.03.24
AI-generated imitations come in different forms and are increasingly hard to tell apart from the real thing