Data Production Labor #2
Installation
Data Production Labor #2
Presented at various locations
Exploring the value of actions performed by using Captcha systems while performing everyday life activities such as browsing the web.
We problematise the narrative of Captcha systems being presented as a service to verify that "you are not a robot". The installation reveals the hidden dynamics of extraction of labour of these systems.
Particularly how this labour is being used to train image recognition technologies, also revealing how Google secretly sold this technology to the US-Department of Defense to be used in the drone program.
The installation invites participants to perform a working shift filling captchas, and, by doing so, helps them reveal their unknowingly complicity with the military operations of the US drone program.
Despite seemingly moving towards a society without human work, we have started to perform new forms of invisible labour. Human-produced data is a resource already extracted by Big Tech, producing vast amounts of capital.