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"Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world. For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products."

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This #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate the women behind the AI revolution. 💜

Across Africa and beyond, women data labelers do the vital, often unseen work that trains the models shaping our digital world.

Your work matters.

#IWD2026 #WomenInAI #DataLabelers #DLA

Organizing Across Borders, by Joan Kinyua The Data Labelers Association is developing mutual support structures and fighting for better working conditions. This inquiry recounts our path to founding it and acknowledges our ongoing partnership...

Big news!
The Data Labelers Association (DLA) now has a page on the Data Workers' Inquiry platform!
🔗 data-workers.org/DLA

@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social @adiod.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social
#DataLabelers #DigitalLabor

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Data annotators worldwide work on facial scans, surveillance footage, LIDAR, and more—without knowing how the data will be used.
We label, transcribe, and annotate the world—yet we're rarely told why, for whom, or with what impact.

#DataLabelers #InvisibleLabor