‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire
- Written by Jessica Russ-Smith, Associate Professor, Social Work and Deputy Head of School, School of Allied Health, Australian Catholic University
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN, CC BY-SAIn the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT – usually without any compensation to or...
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