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Milagros Miceli

@milamiceli.bsky.social

Sociologist & Computer Scientist PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🌐 milamiceli.com

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Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social · last mo.

Highly recommend this by @morganklauss.bsky.social @perhaxis.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social et al re: AI data workers “caught within a regime of entrapment: interconnected mechanisms that make it difficult for workers to leave or improve positions” www.morgan-klaus.com/pdfs/pubs/Ka...

Abstract: The rapid expansion of the AI industry relies heavily on the production, verification, and maintenance of data, otherwise known as "data work". Companies outsource and offshore this work through global AI supply chains that operate under exploitative conditions. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Kenyan data workers across platforms and BPOs, this paper examines how such conditions take shape and persist. We argue that workers are caught within a regime of entrapment, a system of interconnected mechanisms that make it difficult for workers to leave or improve their positions. These mechanisms include the push to invest in the promise of ‘AI’ jobs, the use of precarious contracts to govern workers, the capture of regulatory institutions, and the exploitation of global labor arbitrage. Using complementary lenses of neoliberal governmentality, precarity, and supply chain capitalism, we analyze why labor mobilization in this sector remains uniquely constrained. We conclude by outlining an orientation for research and scholarly practice that can support workers’ organizing efforts and contest the structural conditions sustaining this regime.
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman@morganklauss.bsky.social · 4mo ago

- [Tuesday April 14 | 12:03-12:15 PM in Labor, Equity and the Hidden Economy] 'The plan is just survival': Data Work in Kenya and the Regime of Entrapment

The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute@dairinstitute.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to the Data Workers' Inquiry team. Incredibly well deserved 🎉🎉🎉

Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · last mo.

🏆We got an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2026!! Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most prestigious awards at the intersection of art, technology, and society, and a huge recognition to our commitment to advancing worker-led, collective knowledge production ➡️ archive.aec.at/prix/319125/

Logo of Prix Ars Electronica 2026, Award of Distinction
Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · last mo.

I am incredibly proud and honored by this recognition and look forward to seeing some of our work exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival. I'll be there to receive the award! 📅 9–13 September 2026 📍 Linz, Austria

Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · last mo.

🏆We got an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2026!! Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most prestigious awards at the intersection of art, technology, and society, and a huge recognition to our commitment to advancing worker-led, collective knowledge production ➡️ archive.aec.at/prix/319125/

Logo of Prix Ars Electronica 2026, Award of Distinction
Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very proud of this collaboration with @utaw.tech, and delighted to see Fasica Berhane putting her exceptional reporting skills at the service of TikTok workers in London. Thanks @joxn.bsky.social for supporting the making of this report! ➡️ data-workers.org/fasica-utaw/

Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW INQUIRY!!! Our own Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan partners up with @utaw.tech to reveal the exploitation of trust and safety workers and the displacement of human labor through inadequate IA systems, this time at TikTok in London. ➡️ data-workers.org/fasica-utaw/

Illustrated cover of the report with the title “Unveiling: The Invisible Lives of TikTok Data Workers in London” on the top. Black background with a vertical slit through which people are looking out, as if looking through closed curtains. The people are blue, and the background peeking through is bright pink, mirroring the colors of the TikTok logo. The logo of the Data Workers’ Inquiry project is seen in the lower right corner.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub

Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.

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Guerrilla Media Collective@guerrillamedia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nuestro objetivo es recopilar historias y testimonios con los que componer un mosaico que refleje la realidad multifacética de trabajar en el mundo de la traducción. Más info (en inglés): www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...

Translators Against the Machine: Open Call for articles on the translation industry - Guerrilla Media Collective

Calling all linguists! For a while now we’ve been running the Translators Against the Machine initiative. We met up in person recently and discussed new directions for the project, and we’ve decided t...

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Guerrilla Media Collective@guerrillamedia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

«Te informamos de que hemos cambiado nuestra forma de trabajar y a partir de ahora todas las solicitudes de proyectos que recibas serán de posedición. Esta es nuestra tarifa de posedición». En resumidas cuentas, se trataba de un «lo tomas o lo dejas».

Traductores contra la máquina 1: Cuando una buena agencia se echa a perder, por Laura Vuillemin - Guerrilla Media Collective

Era lo que se podía llamar «el cliente perfecto». Estuve recibiendo encargos interesantes y variados de forma regular durante años. Estaba en contacto directo con un meticuloso gestor de proyectos que...

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Ingo Dachwitz@roofjoke.netzpolitik.org · 4mo ago

Heute gab es das erste Fachgespräch zu Datenarbeit überhaupt im Bundestag. Dass das Thema endlich auf der politischen Agenda ist, ein riesiges Verdienst der beharrlichen Arbeit von Joan, Milagros und Julia. Sie haben zahlreiche Ideen, wie es besser gehen könnte. Hier lest ihr meine Zusammenfassung:

netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · 4mo ago

Im Bundestag wurde heute erstmals darüber gesprochen, wie die Bedingungen für Datenarbeiter:innen hinter KI verbessert werden können. Joan Kinyua von @datalabelers.bsky.social, Forscherin @milamiceli.bsky.social & @jkloiber.bsky.social von @superrrnetwork.bsky.social lieferten zahlreiche Vorschläge.

Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📅 This Friday, April 17 ⏱️ 9AM PT / 6PM CEST Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social for a conversation on border & surveillance tech covering • Our latest projects on refugees & AI • A panel with Respond Crisis Translation • A workshop to imagine alternative tech futures 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-a...

Refugees and AI

Centering the lived experiences of refugees and their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.

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netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · 4mo ago

Im Bundestag wurde heute erstmals darüber gesprochen, wie die Bedingungen für Datenarbeiter:innen hinter KI verbessert werden können. Joan Kinyua von @datalabelers.bsky.social, Forscherin @milamiceli.bsky.social & @jkloiber.bsky.social von @superrrnetwork.bsky.social lieferten zahlreiche Vorschläge.

Outsourcing und Ausbeutung: „Es gibt keine KI ohne Datenarbeit“

Hinter dem Erfolg von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Sozialen Medien stecken ausgebeutete Arbeiter:innen. Bei einem Fachgespräch im Deutschen Bundestag wurde heute diskutiert, wie ihre Lage verbesser wer...

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Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 4mo ago

El fanzine «Trabajando para la Máquina: Fragmentos de vida y muerte de un moderador de contenido» expone las consecuencias psicológicas para los moderadores de contenido de META y de otras Big Tech. «Nada peor que mostrar humanidad en un lugar que se alimenta de cadáveres digitales»

Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW INQUIRY! Barcelona-based content moderator Horacio Espinosa translates his workplace ethnography into a heartbreaking yet powerful zine. If you use social media, you'll want to read and share this: data-workers.org/horacio-en/

Zine’s cover. An illustration showing two hands typing on a keyboard, the fingertips and some of the keys are stained with red blood. The title 'Trabajando para la Máquina - Fragments of life and death from a content moderator' is prominently displayed above.
Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pocas veces me verán recomendar algo con tanto énfasis como este fanzine sobre quienes filtran lo peor de internet para que el resto no tengamos que verlo. Lectura obligatoria si realmente querés saber lo que es la moderación de contenido. Disponible también en español: data-workers.org/horacio/

Trabajando para la Máquina by Horacio Espinosa

Una investigación auto-etnográfica sobre la trituradora psicológica que es la moderación de contenidos. Revelando lo que no debería seguir oculto.

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Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW INQUIRY! Barcelona-based content moderator Horacio Espinosa translates his workplace ethnography into a heartbreaking yet powerful zine. If you use social media, you'll want to read and share this: data-workers.org/horacio-en/

Zine’s cover. An illustration showing two hands typing on a keyboard, the fingertips and some of the keys are stained with red blood. The title 'Trabajando para la Máquina - Fragments of life and death from a content moderator' is prominently displayed above.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), we'll have a virtual event introducing our Refugees, Migrants and AI research program which centers the lived experiences of refugees and migrants and puts power back into their hands🧵 ☘️☘️☘️ Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-a...

Refugees and AI

Centering the lived experiences of refugees and their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.

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Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Behind the Face of AI 💥 «¿Sabías que podes estar hablando con un trabajador precarizado en vez de un chatbot? No es automatización completa. Es trabajo humano desplazado hacia el ocultamiento, donde la precarización no se nota tanto» 🎯 @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social

Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

Illustrated cover image titled “Behind the Face of AI,” showing a split face: one half is a tired human with a worried expression, the other half is a glowing robot face. The contrast suggests a human hidden behind an artificial intelligence persona, set against a blue comic-style background.
Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that all pieces in the DWI can be used as classroom material. Our students deserve to know that chatbots in their favorite social media and messaging apps rely on precarized workers. ➡️ data-workers.org/france/

Behind The Face of AI, by Clara and B.

This short comic details the experiences of data workers in France working for Scale AI as human chatbots. They explore what it is to be human and the consequences of acting like a machine.

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Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

Illustrated cover image titled “Behind the Face of AI,” showing a split face: one half is a tired human with a worried expression, the other half is a glowing robot face. The contrast suggests a human hidden behind an artificial intelligence persona, set against a blue comic-style background.
Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · 6mo ago

From Lúcio's report: “This account demonstrates that the challenges of moderation go far beyond graphic and disturbing content. They are rooted in a business model that treats human beings as disposable resources.” Full report available at data-workers.org/lucio/

Behind the "For You" - Content Moderators under TikTok’s Control, by Lúcio

Portuguese Behind the „For You“ – Content Moderators under TikTok’s Control TikTok’s deliberate management strategies to maximize productivity at the cost of workers‘ well-being: a relentless metrics ...

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Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 NEW INQUIRY!! A Brazilian former TikTok moderator, pseudonymized as Lúcio, analyzes the systems designed to extract ever-growing productivity from content moderators and how they operate to harm workers. Download and read the report at data-workers.org/lucio/

Illustration of a silhouette struggling to lift a large, cracked TikTok logo, symbolizing the burden of content moderation. Background with faded TikTok logos, title "Behind the For You" at the top.