“To make machines (and masters) seem intelligent and original, it is crucial to hide the labour and workers that enable their operation.”
– Photographer and director
Charlie Engman, on how generative AI hinges on ‘other people’s work.’ In his essay “You Don’t Hate AI, You Hate Capitalism,” the Brooklyn-based creative catalogues the labour and exploitation—from Global South content moderators to artists whose work becomes training data—that makes AI products possible.
