Data Production Labor #3
Installation
Data Production Labor #3
Presented at various locations
Exploring the value of humans' voice interactions with home assistants in everyday life and the value extracted of images provided to AI image recognition systems.
We problematise the price of convenience of such systems and the larger economic and technological systems that are being developed by our use.
The installation invites participants to interact with Alexa and have a conversation about its economic model, meanwhile realising that this interaction is improving Alexas’ skills.
After a few interactions, Alexa asks the participant for permission to submit their image to the image recognition services of Microsoft, whose AI is being improved by every image sent. Alexa speaks out loud the outcomes that Microsofts’ AI analyses from the image.
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.