#datawork — Public Fediverse posts

#CfP Session 209 Archaeological data work: Interdisciplinary perspectives to interdisciplinary practices at #EAA2026 in Athens co’orgd by me, @costisd and Sabina Battle Baró Submit a paper abstract at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026/contributions DL 5 February 2026 #datawork #archaeology #interdisciplinaryresearch

Who keeps AI safe in practice? This #CSCW2025 paper proposes a framework for supporting RAI content workers who moderate, annotate, and red team harmful content. Read more https://tinyurl.com/aiworkersafety-cscw2025 #AI #AIsafety #datawork #redteaming #well-being

New Discussion Paper on "Dynamics of Data Work in AI Implementation Processes":

In their study, Lea Schneidemesser, Daniel Schneiß, and Jana Heim investigate the role of data work in the implementation of #AI systems in traditional industries, exploring the labor and power dynamics embedded in these processes.

More: 🔗 https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.DP/50

#socialscience #research #work #labor ##DataWork #TechAndSociety #FutureOfWork #openaccess #publication @WZB_Berlin @FOKUSpublic @tuberlin

New publication: “Ethics of Data Work”

How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research:

https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/detail/ethics-of-data-work/

Authors: T Yang, @strippel, A Keiner, @dylan, A Chávez, K Kauffman, M Pohl, C Sinders, @milamiceli

#DataWork #FairWork #ResearchEthics #DigitalLabor #ResponsibleResearch #AIethics #LaborRights #research #openaccess @towardsfairwork

"The production of artificial intelligence (AI) requires human labour, with tasks ranging from well-paid engineering work to often-outsourced data work. This commentary explores the economic and policy implications of improving working conditions for AI data workers, specifically focusing on the impact of clearer task instructions and increased pay for data annotators. It contrasts rule-based and standard-based approaches to task instructions, revealing evidence-based practices for increasing accuracy in annotation and lowering task difficulty for annotators. AI developers have an economic incentive to invest in these areas as better annotation can lead to higher quality AI systems. The findings have broader implications for AI policy beyond the fairness of labour standards in the AI economy. Testing the design of annotation instructions is crucial for the development of annotation standards as a prerequisite for scientific review and effective human oversight of AI systems in protection of ethical values and fundamental rights."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251351320

#AI #GenerativeAI #DataWork #DataLabour #AIPolicy #PoliticalEconomy #DataLabeling #AIEthics #DataAnnotation

Today, AI is still powered by millions of data workers, both men and women. In Victorian England, many of the same data tasks were performed by "lady computers". Though they were recruited at Cambridge colleges, they got paid as little as £4 per month. Same old story.

#womenintech #historiofai #datawork #digitallabor #steampunk #retrofuturism #historyofcomputing

Dans ce podcast de l'Atelier des Médias - @RFI, je vous raconte nos enquêtes #DiPLab à Madagascar, où des travailleurs entraînent l'IA via des plateformes accessibles depuis des cybercafés, des chambres à coucher, des maisons particulières, des entreprises… https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/atelier-des-m%C3%A9dias/20240622-%C3%A0-madagascar-des-petites-mains-entra%C3%AEnent-les-intelligences-artificielles #ia #datawork #madagascar #crowdwork #platform #france #globalization #Microwork

It's been a while since I've put an article on the DEV web site, but today I had an itch to scratch.
From mid-afternoon I wrote enough SQL to make a simple "extreme date" collector for the Teradata that I work on.
It seemed a neat enough bunch of code that I felt like anonymising and annotating it, so now you can see it at:
- Using SQL to discover problem dates in your data
- https://dev.to/geraldew/using-sql-to-discover-problem-dates-in-your-data-4l8d
#DataWork #SQL #Database #Teradata