Is the #PlatformWorkDirective a blunt tool for women? Together with Eva Kocher @cillas.bsky.social, I show how ignoring gendered experiences in care & platform work risks leaving protection gaps. New in European Labour Law Journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Dernièrement, trop de discussions sur le "bien-être de l'IA" (si vous le suivez vous savez ce que j'en pense🤮). Pour contrecarrer ce délire, venez à notre séminaire DiPLab sur le ^bien-être des travailleurs^ des plateforme de data work! 📌Paris 26.9.25, 15h Inscription ici👉 diplab.eu/diplab-semin...

Le chercheur @casilli.bsky.social révèle un (autre) angle mort des chantres du «tout-à-l'IA»: on sait que nos algos ne seraient rien sans les millions de travailleurs du clic, exploités dans l'indifférence générale. Le nouveau dada de la Silicon Valley? «Pourquoi ne pas donner des droits aux algos?»

"Comment la Silicon Valley veut accorder des droits aux machines, mais pas aux travailleurs" @casilli.bsky.social - "C'est comme si Nike voulait accorder des droits à ses baskets plutôt qu'aux travailleurs de ses ateliers clandestins !" www.casilli.fr/2025/09/15/t...

Would you listen if Nike told you to disregard the rights of sweatshop workers and instead focus on the rights of sneakers? Then why listen to Big Tech pundits raving about ‘model welfare’ and ‘unions for AI,’ while ignoring labor welfare and crushing worker unions? www.casilli.fr/2025/09/15/t...

C'est une mafia, une putain de mafia, intégriste, identitaire, toxique, nauséabonde. Merci Disclose pour le taff, et puisse l'Université catholique de l'Ouest soit assumer qu'elle en est une composante ou avoir le courage de rompre avec tout cela. disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...

Should AI unionize—or should "AI welfare" nerds just fuck off? According to AI welfare advocates we should focus on the wellbeing of machines & nonhuman entities, while the tech companies that fund their studies blatantly disregard the humans who create said machines. www.casilli.fr/2025/09/15/t...

Reminder @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI; which explains this thinly sourced excuse of an article that relies on ONE Masters student and OpenAI's International Education Lead countered by measly words of "caution" from ONE university admin.

📌 Mark your calendars: See you at the International Labor Organization in Geneva for INDL-9, September 9–11, 2026! (Video of ILO senior economist Uma Rani announcing INDL-9 at our community gathered in Bologna, Italy: vimeo.com/1117788308/8...)

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Every time I think about someone saying "it's inevitable" when it comes to some tech thing, I think about Toronto stopping Google from creating a 'smart neighborhood' with their Sidewalk Labs project. A bunch of people worked very hard in their community to say absolutely not, not here.

After 3 epic days with our community of researchers & activists in Italy, the big reveal—the 9th conference of our International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-9) will take place at the International Labour Organization! Watch the announcement from the iconic Flag Corridor. vimeo.com/1117788308/8...

That’s the kind of dumb shit you read when a clueless NYT journalist mistakes debating for dialectic.

Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

C’est la rentrée des séminaires DiPLab. Si vous êtes à Paris, venez écouter @timchristiaens.bsky.social et ses collègue parler de leur nouvelle étude sur comment les travailleurs créent des communautés au sein des plateformes de crowdwork. C’est le vendredi 26 septembre à 15h au @iscpif.bsky.social.

The more AI looks like a scam, the more I notice it's a scam also meant to try to put workers in their place by threatening their jobs while AI has proven incapable of replacing them.

مع اقتراب مؤتمر INDL-8 (10-12 سبتمبر في بولونيا، إيطاليا)، يسعدنا الإعلان عن تمديد الموعد النهائي لتقديم الملخصات للندوة الثانية INDL-MEA حتى 15 سبتمبر 2025. ندعو الباحثين والناشطين في مجالات العمل والمنصات والذكاء الاصطناعي في أفريقيا والشرق الأوسط للمشاركة. www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/

Are you an academic, activist, worker conducting research on labor, platforms, and AI in Africa or the Middle East? The abstract submission deadline for the 2nd INDL-MEA webinar has been extended to 15 Sept 2025. (Please help share the CfP) www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/

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they are very actively pitching GPT models as being ‘good at health’ and promoting this specific use. it’s really reckless.

Hinton insists that if you use ChatGPT at work, AI has stolen your job. So if his girlfriend uses ChatGPT to dump him, I guess AI just stole his girlfriend.

Antonio Casilli oli mainio puhuja. Tutkimusryhmänsä oli haastatellut datatyöntekijöitä eri maissa. Ilman heidän työpanostaan ei tekoälyäkään olisi. Mut palkka on todella pieni, eikä työolot aina ole häävit.

怖かった。データ入力がそんなことになっていたなんて知らなかった。あんなグローバルサウスを見てしまったら、AIなんてもう使う気になれない。 https://www.nhk.jp/p/wdoc/ts/88Z7X45XZY/episode/te/PNGW5GLYNY/

A new article by Yours Truly is featured in the culture pages of the Italian magazine L'Espresso, to introduce the readers to our award-winning documentary "In the Belly of AI". Pdf version in Italian+html version in English here: www.casilli.fr/2025/09/05/m...

Donc en plus d'avoir recruté à prix d'or des spécialistes qui sont déjà en train d'en partir pour un fumeux lab 'superintelligence', Meta s'est en plus fait arnaquer par celui que Zuck a placé à sa tête (ce serait drôle si les annotateurs de Scale AI ne s'étaient pas fait arnaquer encore plus).

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 (TL;DR Meta was defrauded of nearly $15 billion through what appeared to be an AI Ponzi scheme) www.casilli.fr/2025/09/03/t...

L'IA détruit-elle l'emploi des plus jeunes, comme le "montre" une étude de Stanford ? Quelques nuances par @casilli.bsky.social qui souligne quelques failles de l'étude et explique que le déplacement du travail salarié vers les plateformes explique leur "disparition". www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/y...

C’est d’ailleurs à ça qu’on reconnaît l’« IA ».

"The missing 22-25 year-olds haven’t been replaced by AI—they’ve been reclassified. Instead of appearing in payroll databases as employees, they’re invoicing as independent contractors and platform freelancers .../... to shed labor protections and overhead costs."

Today I felt like pontificating about AI, jobs, and academics cosplaying as innovators. So I wrote this thing about a new study penned by three Stanford researchers, titled "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of AI". www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/y...

Avez-vous vu ces annonces LinkedIn "enseignez à une IA" pour profils bac+8, 25€/h, télétravail facile? Il s'agit d'une vaste opération de comm’ des producteurs d'IA, non pas pour recruter des talents, mais… pour appâter les investisseurs avec le mirage de l'AGI. diplab.eu/the-ai-tutor...

'È proprio difficile entrare nell’ecosistema digitale, parlare con questi lavoratori, capire chi sono e le loro esigenze' @silviarainone.bsky.social e @casilli.bsky.social intervistati dal 📺 Rai sui lavoratori invisibili dietro l'Intelligenza artificiale 💻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE4v...

Has AI outgrown its “Global South data sweatshop” phase? Is this why LinkedIn has been flooded with “AI tutor” job ads targeting PhDs? Is it because, as Sam Altman claims, his chatbot is “PhD-level smart”? Or—hear me out—is this just investor-facing theatrics? africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Last week, Paola Tubaro and I had the honor to participate in the WORK2025 conference. My keynote was titled: “Where does AI come from?” Paola Tubaro’s presentation was: “Women in the loop: the gendered contribution of data workers to AI”. Find video and summary here: diplab.eu/diplab-resea...

Very pleased to announce the publication with @artxtra.bsky.social & colleagues of our article in Social Media + Society : "Knowing Your Users by Heart: A Critical Examination of the Scientific Research on Emotions Conducted by Social Media Platforms" 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The 🇮🇹 national broadcaster Rai1 dedicated a report to how AI is produced, with real human work. Data workers both from Europe and Africa describe their working conditions+Yours Truly (in full professorial mode, with whiteboard and all) explains the AI assembly line. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QE4v...

2017: Facebook AI invented a “brand-new language”. Got so scary scientists had to unplug it. Total BS, yet people don’t keep track. 2025: an OpenAI employee claims GPT-5 invented brand-new math. But as the company's hopes for trillion-dollar investments, no fake fear - and no dramatic unplugging.

Public health sector went above and beyond to save the life of a billionaire fintech CEO—after everything finance and its billionaire executives did to dismantle it. The tragic comedy of class dynamics. greekcitytimes.com/2025/08/24/g...

It’s always science fiction with these folks, never fascism or climate disaster.

Funny how examples like this don't come up in productivity roundtable discussions and media reporting focus on the need to "embrace AI" #auspol

Here’s a giant screw-you to this bank and to the snake-oil peddlers who sold them on miracle AI—that ultimately can’t replace workers. Wild how yet another AI flop barely makes headlines, while every “AI taking jobs” story blows up everywhere. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Oh cry me a fucking river.

The program for INDL-8 is online: nearly 200 presentations, global speakers, and unique events on digital labor in Bologna, Italy, Sept 10–12, 2025. Explore research, activism, and the politics of digital work. www.indl.network/indl-8/

Der Soziologe Antonio Casilli sagt, dass die ganze Debatte über KI und Arbeit von einer falschen Vorstellung ausgehe: „Die Gefahr besteht nicht darin, dass Roboter den Menschen die Arbeit wegnehmen, sondern darin, dass die Menschen für Roboter arbeiten müssen.“ taz.de/Ausbeutung-i...

¿Quién entrena a la IA y a qué coste? @casilli.bsky.social, catedrático en @telecomparis.bsky.social, lo analiza junto a #Esade prof. @annaginesfabrellas.bsky.social y Raquel Serrano en #DigitalWORK. Trabajo invisible, desigualdad y ética digital. Más #DoBetter👇 dobetter.esade.edu/es/IA-trabaj....

📢 Call for Papers! The 2nd INDL-MEA Conference is coming November 25–26, 2025 — fully online! Join the International Network on Digital Labor to explore #PlatformWork, #AI & #GigEconomy in the Middle East & Africa. Abstracts due August 31, 2025. 🌍 👉 www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/

AI is going through a phase of excremental growth. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

He’s poaching data workers too—just look at the ScaleAI grab—and that might be the real move in this AI grab.

INDL-8 is only 60 days away! Keynotes feature @ubiquity75.xyz, Joan Kinyua, Sandro Mezzadra et al. Special events include: a panel discussion with data workers inside one of Europe's biggest data centers, a counterculture city tour of Bologna, and more. Register at👉 www.indl.network/its-60-days-...

INDL-8 “Contesting Digital Labor: Resistance, counter-uses, and new directions for research” is coming up! Did you register to join us and 200+ participants in Bologna, Italy, on 10–12 September 2025? It’s free to attend — just make sure to register. www.indl.network/indl-8/