How the Other Half Lives: The Hidden Labor Behind ChatGPT | Karen Hao

Karen Hao is the author of the amazing book, Empire of AI. If you want an brilliantly insightful and critical analysis of the OpenAI and the other tech giants crazy race for generative AI dominance, this is the book for you. I can't count the number of times while reading it I uttered the word, "Wow!"

In this video, "Karen Hao discusses how, heralded by tech luminaries as the world’s most revolutionary technology since the arrival of the internet, so-called generative AI like ChatGPT depends on a sprawling global pipeline of human labor. But who are these workers? And what are their lives like? Do they like doing this work? This talk will share stories and observations from the field that reveal a troubling picture about the exploitative labor system that Silicon Valley has created to make possible its multibillion-dollar AI industry."