#gig-work — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gig-work, aggregated by home.social.
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The Filter Work
Every time ChatGPT doesn't describe violence, someone read it so everyone else wouldn't have to.
Since 2021, OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok have had Kenyan workers label the internet's darkest content. Pay: often under $2/hour. One worker reported recurring flashbacks after a single passage.
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/#AIEthics #DigitalColonialism #ContentModeration #GigWork #TechExploitation #Kenya #AI
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The Filter Work
Every time ChatGPT doesn't describe violence, someone read it so everyone else wouldn't have to.
Since 2021, OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok have had Kenyan workers label the internet's darkest content. Pay: often under $2/hour. One worker reported recurring flashbacks after a single passage.
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/#AIEthics #DigitalColonialism #ContentModeration #GigWork #TechExploitation #Kenya #AI
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https://english.news.cn/20260630/4e4ecae010a74ed8abf41e509f8019db/c.html
#China is making efforts to address the harms of the #GigEconomy.
>As workers in new forms of employment, particularly delivery riders, constantly move through neighborhoods, office buildings and commercial districts, primary-level Party organizations have found that they are uniquely positioned to contribute to community governance.
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>"Delivery workers are often the first to notice problems in a neighborhood," said Yang Yang, a local Party official in Songnan. "They know which corridor light isn't working, where a fire lane has been obstructed, and what needs fixing, long before anyone else does."
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>Aside from rest spaces and work opportunities, equal access to public services is also provided to workers in new forms of employment. Local authorities have opened cross-regional medical insurance payment channels for delivery couriers, as well as a pilot program on occupational injury insurance.
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>Further initiatives are underway to offer this group a more promising life in the city. The healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of work is listed in the outline of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) among the priorities of its employment-first strategy.
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>The blueprint highlights the need to improve the systems for protecting the rights and interests of people in new forms of employment, and strengthen the service, management and support for them.This is the kind of thing that I want my government doing. Unfortunately, in America, #GigWork gets no benefits of any kind besides "fLExiBLe sChEduLinG". Imagine our politicians prioritizing the "healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of work".
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https://english.news.cn/20260630/4e4ecae010a74ed8abf41e509f8019db/c.html
#China is making efforts to address the harms of the #GigEconomy.
>As workers in new forms of employment, particularly delivery riders, constantly move through neighborhoods, office buildings and commercial districts, primary-level Party organizations have found that they are uniquely positioned to contribute to community governance.
>
>...
>
>"Delivery workers are often the first to notice problems in a neighborhood," said Yang Yang, a local Party official in Songnan. "They know which corridor light isn't working, where a fire lane has been obstructed, and what needs fixing, long before anyone else does."
>
>...
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>Aside from rest spaces and work opportunities, equal access to public services is also provided to workers in new forms of employment. Local authorities have opened cross-regional medical insurance payment channels for delivery couriers, as well as a pilot program on occupational injury insurance.
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>Further initiatives are underway to offer this group a more promising life in the city. The healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of work is listed in the outline of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) among the priorities of its employment-first strategy.
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>The blueprint highlights the need to improve the systems for protecting the rights and interests of people in new forms of employment, and strengthen the service, management and support for them.This is the kind of thing that I want my government doing. Unfortunately, in America, #GigWork gets no benefits of any kind besides "fLExiBLe sChEduLinG". Imagine our politicians prioritizing the "healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of work".
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Is #Amazon going to sunset #mTurk?
As of July 30 2026, #AWS will no longer accept new customers (requestors).
"Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal."
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms-workforce-management-public.html
#cogSci #psychology #xPhi #AI #tech #news #crowdWork #gigWork #surveyResearch
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Is #Amazon going to sunset #mTurk?
As of July 30 2026, #AWS will no longer accept new customers (requestors).
"Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal."
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms-workforce-management-public.html
#cogSci #psychology #xPhi #AI #tech #news #crowdWork #gigWork #surveyResearch
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An Amazon driver named the 3 things she dreads delivering. Two involve your pets.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-amazon-driver-heaviest-deliveries/
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An Amazon driver named the 3 things she dreads delivering. Two involve your pets.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-amazon-driver-heaviest-deliveries/
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Proposal: nascent gig-workers' unions should adopt the teasel as their icon/logo.
Why?
Today I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole of fulling and associated cloth finishing processes, and I learned about the gigging, and the gig-mill, which used dried teasel flowers to raise the nap of fulled cloth. Teasels were apparently preferred by some even after mechanical alternatives were developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig-mill
So, those who do "gigging" to make a living, heading back to the gig-mill every day, it's a linguistic connection but also provides a distinct graphic image perfect for iconography!
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Proposal: nascent gig-workers' unions should adopt the teasel as their icon/logo.
Why?
Today I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole of fulling and associated cloth finishing processes, and I learned about the gigging, and the gig-mill, which used dried teasel flowers to raise the nap of fulled cloth. Teasels were apparently preferred by some even after mechanical alternatives were developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig-mill
So, those who do "gigging" to make a living, heading back to the gig-mill every day, it's a linguistic connection but also provides a distinct graphic image perfect for iconography!
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Massachusetts has become the first state to approve collective bargaining for drivers for ride-hailing services, while maintaining flexibility and contractor independence. This might be a model for other workers in the evolving, internet-based economy. #uber #lyft #gigwork #rideshare
Posted into IT'S YOUR ECONOMY @it-s-your-economy-csmonitor
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Your Social Media Posts Might Determine Your Pay #privacy #SurveillancePricing #SocialMedia #GigWork
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Your Social Media Posts Might Determine Your Pay #privacy #SurveillancePricing #SocialMedia #GigWork
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Many Seniors Return to Work Through Gig Jobs Due to Financial Needs
📰 Original title: Why ‘unretired’ seniors are picking up gig work to pay the bills
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/many-seniors-return-to-work-through-gig-jobs-due-to-financial-needs/?redirpost=ad8b60b3-c3b9-4626-b96d-80d83b9ead39
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: What's a "gig work minimum wage" (17 Feb 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: What's a "gig work minimum wage" (17 Feb 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/
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A robotaxi may take you to your destination, but you know what it can’t do? Close its own door. In Atlanta, a Waymo called a DoorDasher to come to its aid.
An autonomous service. Until it isn’t.
New piece on how humans are being turned into on-call stabilisation hardware for “smart” systems:
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
Annie McClanahan
(Zone Books)
"Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.
Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work—from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers’ own descriptions of what they do—McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity."
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work
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Gig-work delivery jobs are getting more dangerous
#GigWork #DeliveryWorkers #WorkersRights #LabourJustice #PrecariousWork #PlatformEconomy #Unionize #RoadSafety #BikeInfrastructure #MigrantWorkers #AlgorithmicControl #Canada #PublicPolicy #SocialJustice
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Uber vs. DoorDash deliveries for me today (an Aussie public holiday):
- DoorDash: Five deliveries in 3hrs (rejected an additional five as too far): $43.57 plus tips.
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AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
"How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps three meters away?"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya
