Selected articles on content moderation and training AI data

• Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic, opens an external URL in a new window (Time, 2023)
• ‘I Sold My Soul.’ WhatsApp Content Moderators Review the Worst Material on the Internet. Now They’re Alleging Pay Discrimination, opens an external URL in a new window (Time, 2021)
• „Für uns sind die Sozialen Medien ein unsicherer Ort“, opens an external URL in a new window (ver.di, 2023)
• Facebook in Afrika: Neue Inhaltemoderation gesucht, opens an external URL in a new window (Netzpolitik, 2023)
• Unsichtbar: Die schmutzige Arbeit philippinischer Content-Moderatoren für Facebook & Co, opens an external URL in a new window (Trend, 2015)

Documentary

• The Cleaners, opens an external URL in a new window (Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck, 2018)

Taking action and tools

• Support platform for platform workers: Foxglove, opens an external URL in a new window
• Have I’ve been trained?, opens an external URL in a new window
• Open dataset for AI training Data (used in this artwork): Laion, opens an external URL in a new window

Selected research of the participating JKU researchers on platform workers

• Gegenhuber, Schüßler, Reischauer & Thäter (2022): Building collective institutional infrastructures for decent platform work: the development of a crowdwork agreement in Germany, opens an external URL in a new window
• Thäter, Gegenhuber, Schüßler & Ellmer (2022): How do workers gain voice on digital work platforms? Hotspots and blind spots in research on platform worker voice, opens an external URL in a new window
• Ellmer, Herr, Klaus & Gegenhuber (2019): Platform workers centre stage! Taking stock of current debates and approaches for improving the conditions of platform work in Europe, opens an external URL in a new window
• Thäter & Gegenhuber (2020): Plattformgenossenschaften: mehr Mitbestimmung durch die digitale Renaissance einer alten Idee?, opens an external URL in a new window