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The New York Times
Are These Workers Training Robots to Replace Them?

You're paying more than minimum wage, but you're not paying anything close to the actual value of that data for the company because now that data is getting used to train this army of robots that's going to stick around forever. The companies want to get the data of how to do that job. And once they've gotten that, they don't need you anymore.

— The New York Times
2w ago
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Adam Conover explains how YouTube ruined everything

I feel the word 'creator' was created by the social media companies as a way to trick people into entering an extremely inequitable economic bargain. Basically they promise, 'Hey, Mr. Beast makes a billion dollars. You could be Mr. Beast. Why don't you work for us basically for free for the rest of your life in the hopes that one day, we'll break off a little chunk of ad revenue for you?' Creator is like when Avon or Mary Kay calls you an entrepreneur.

1mo ago
Decoder with Nilay Patel
It's about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith

After all, I've been saying for a long time now that the original sin of digital media was Jonah and BuzzFeed betting they could so consistently go viral that platforms like Facebook would pay them for content — the way cable companies pay carriage fees for channels like ESPN. This was the big bet for a lot of companies all chasing BuzzFeed's influence and valuation, and it's mostly all come crashing down.

2mo ago

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