The Fabulous Mechanical Turk ft. Phil Jones
It's the free one!
We speak to Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker, about microwork and how AI is fake, and most of it is just tiny tasks done by workers in the global south and dressed up as technology. We get deeper into how exactly how this practice developed, how its economics are rooted in overproduction, and how boosterish liberal institutions cheer-led the whole process.
Get Phil's book here! https://www.versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker
Comments (22)
Make absolutely no one happy and have Milo moan the classic intro.
I am not a smart man, unless I'm told it's the free one, how will i know what i'm paying for?!
Please don't take away 'it's the free one' & 'bonus'.
the free one! and the moaning are truly pleasures keep it up
'it's the free one' is good actually and shouldn't stop, but also as someone who listened to a lot of the podcast before joining the patreon it serves an actually useful function to denote episodes i'd already listened to in the new feed. never let it die.
the only reason i am a patron is so i can hear both versions of the “free one!” bit. keep it up gang!
That pickle sandwich quote just made my brain rip into another dimension to have an aneurism, and then boomerang back to me to have another one here. I feel like moving away from this place sometimes, even as there's nowhere to go. The libs have yet to realise that Johnson could piss in a child's mouth on The One Show and the country's landlords are still gonna vote for him. Love to do the Soviet shop que of getting through 6 staff members to get a loaf of bread, whilst also initiating a gladiatoral fight over a single mangled 5P between those 6 people.
That's England for ya. Coulda had the mensch. Went with the bench.
Kept mishearing as mechanical TERF - has this been a bit already? Feels like could be a distinctively British start-up
Amazon: Suzerain to the Automoman Empire
Yes to get $40,000 assuming each task pays 0.20 and finish 10 an hour it will take you over a year to get. Even 35 cents completing 10 an hour will take over a year to get $40k. And, this assume you work 24/7/365 no breaks. Unless they were assuming better wages there’s no way the World Banks numbers are legit.
bring back the old intro in the radio voices
I’m here for the bits
I'm fine with the voices but when are we gonna get "ohh, beat the HEAT" back?
I want "With Riley and the Gooch" back.
If you get rid of the voices I will not eat a morsel of food until you bring them back. You have been warned.
I don't understand why you would have a host on your podcast whose entire cachet is doing silly voices and then act annoyed when they do silly voices.
Who the hell wants the opening bits to stop? Identify yourself. Reveal your shame.
MORE voices please!
The voices: not really that funny* Riley being irritated by the voices: funny* Kill 'em or not, l'm good * To me; your mileage may vary,
Do not stop the opening radio voices.
The soccer guy?