Karen Hao

Therefore, we can be the only ones that determine how this technology is meant to go and therefore determine your future.

But also they lay claim to resources that are not their own.

That's the data of individuals, the intellectual property of writers and creators.

That's part of the dispossession.

They are taking those resources.

They're not actually paying anything comparable to their value.

And then they amass that value to themselves.

Yeah, so all of that, all of that they use to train their models.

Those models they can then sell as

They don't actually pay anyone for it.

They don't even ask anyone for it.

Right.

And then they exploit an extraordinary amount of labor.

And this is the same kind of extractive relationship where they have all of these tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of workers around the world working.

that do things like data annotation, content moderation for cleaning, labeling, and preparing the data that is put into these models, as well as filtering out all of the toxicity from these models, if those workers didn't do what they did, these technologies literally wouldn't exist.

And yet, what kind of value do they see from it?

I talk in my book about the case of Kenyan workers that OpenAI contracted

And they were paid $2 an hour.

And OpenAI is here, you know, about to IPO for a trillion dollars.

So once again, it's this extractive.