For Stochastic Parrots Day 2023, an anonymous data worker from Kenya shares his experience in the labor of training AI language models, and Milagros Miceli and Safiya Noble share their research about exploited data workers. Moderated by Timnit Gebru.

Dr. Milagros Miceli leads the Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics research group at Weizenbaum-Institut and is a research fellow at DAIR, where she investigates how ground-truth data for machine learning is produced.

Richard (who only wants to use his first name) is an entrepreneur and data worker who has worked on data labeling and content moderation for different types of models including ChatGPT and DALL-E (see this article).

Dr. Safiya Noble is a professor at UCLA, the co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and the author of Algorithms of Oppression.