#gigwork — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gigwork, aggregated by home.social.
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Hollywood Reporter: Top Creators’ Secret Weapon? Indian Video Editors. “Mega-popular creators like Dude Perfect, former NASA engineer Mark Rober, and chef Nick DiGiovanni have all hired remote editors from across the world, according to Sina Sahami, the CEO of YT Jobs, a LinkedIn, of sorts, for YouTubers. These remote gigs are particularly appealing to international youngsters who wander the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/10/hollywood-reporter-top-creators-secret-weapon-indian-video-editors/ -
#Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn #Uber and #Lyft Drivers Into Roaming #Surveillance Vehicles
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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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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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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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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 75 - Uber for Military Surveillance
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wj7Grbrxg68coW5oacWtLX
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Your Social Media Posts Might Determine Your Pay #privacy #SurveillancePricing #SocialMedia #GigWork
