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The title is an erasure of the minoritized workers who've been exploited in labeling and curation and moderation who've been raising concerns; it's an erasure of the many who've been raising concerns about the misogyny and predation involved in the construction of the data sets (e.g. https://www.image-net.org/) which make these models possible https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16923.

Marx makes the case in Grundisse https://thenewobjectivity.com/pdf/marx.pdf that the automation of work could improve the lives of workers -- to "free everyone’s time for their own development". Ruth Gilmore Wilson observes that capital's answer is to build complexes of mass incarceration & policing to deal with the workers rendered jobless by automation https://inquest.org/ruth-wilson-gilmore-the-problem-with-inn... -- that is, those who have too much "free" time. In such a world, Marx speculates that "Wealth is not command over surplus labour time’ (real wealth), ‘but rather, disposable time outside that needed in direct production", but Wilson reminds us that capital's apparent answer to date has been fascism.