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August 9, 2025

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The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers 

Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies manage the human work behind AI development. However, they face accusations of worker exploitation, underpayment and wage theft. Big tech companies benefit from this work model.

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Illustrations of six data workers, working at computers in isolation from each other. Painted background includes hazy image of cubicles; digital overlay of glass fractures.
Kathryn Conrad & Digit / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
An illustration of a mountain resembling a data center and the affected community at the bottom.

July 24, 2025

Infrastructure or Intrusion? Europe’s Conflicted Data Center Expansion

July 4, 2025

What Are Green Algorithms Anyway?

June 20, 2025

Work-shy Students, Outsourced Thinking: GenAI in Education

A couple of atm machines sitting next to each other

May 28, 2025

Can Algorithms Close My Bank Account?

A black-and-white image depicting the early computer, Bombe Machine, during World War II. In the foreground, the shadow of a woman in vintage clothing is cast on a man changing the machine's cable.

May 22, 2025

Scams and Shadow Workers: A Black Market is Selling European Accounts for AI Training

Three groups of icons representing people have shapes travelling between them and a page in the middle of the image. The page is a simple rectangle with straight lines representing data. The shapes traveling towards the page are irregular and in squiggly bands.

April 1, 2025

Spanish National Police Halts Veripol, Its Flagship AI To Detect False Reports

Crop faceless black nurse with takeaway coffee using smartphone

February 14, 2025

The Healthcare Uberization is Slipping Under the Radar

Podcast False Positives Mockup with Mobile

December 30, 2024

False Positives: A Podcast on Financial Discrimination & De-banking

November 7, 2024

The Rise and Fall of a Predictive Policing Pioneer

July 18, 2024

For Trans People, Online Transitioning Can Be a Nightmare

May 29, 2024

Image Generators Are Trying to Hide Their Biases – And They Make Them Worse

May 27, 2024

“All Rise For the Honorable AI”: Algorithmic Management in Polish Electronic Courts

May 24, 2024

The Automated Fortress Europe: No Place for Human Rights

April 17, 2024

Italy Introduces Entirely Automated Public Tenders

March 28, 2024

Spanish Inmates Not to Be Automatically Monitored in Fear of AI Act

February 19, 2024

Austria’s Social Security Invests Over €50m in AI – Just for Bookkeeping?

An illustration of the protagonists of the story. Top: Camille Lextray, Jerzy Afanasjew. Bottom: Anastasia Dedyukhina, Miriam Al Adib, Soizic Pénicaud.

February 15, 2024

Fighting in the Dark: How Europeans Push Back Against Rogue AI

February 6, 2024

How Not to: We Failed at Analyzing Public Discourse on AI With ChatGPT

January 3, 2024

Work Inside the Machine: How Pre-saves and Algorithmic Marketing Turn Musicians into Influencers

December 19, 2023

Greece is planning a €40m automated surveillance system at borders with North Macedonia and Albania

December 18, 2023

The year we waited for action: 2023 in review

November 20, 2023

Plant-identifying apps: good for amateurs, bad for students

November 17, 2023

Not a solution: Meta’s new AI system to contain discriminatory ads

November 2, 2023

Some image generators produce more problematic stereotypes than others, but all fail at diversity

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