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Ghost work

Ghost work is work performed by a human, but believed by a customer to be performed by an automated process. The term was coined by anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri in their 2019 book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass.

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Ghost work

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples18
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

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Ghost work

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related to False perception · 13
Ghost work → According, AI, Amazon's, California, Despite, Her, In, Lilly Irani, MTurk, San Diego, She, There, University
related to Definition · 5
Ghost work → APIs, Gray, Internet, Suri, They

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ghost work perception gig platform workers performed gray computer suri state task-based labelling content also task need image belief human

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ghost workrelated to DefinitionGray0.60section
Ghost workrelated to DefinitionSuri0.60section
Ghost workrelated to DefinitionInternet0.60section
Ghost workrelated to DefinitionAPIs0.60section
Ghost workrelated to DefinitionThey0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionAccording0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionLilly Irani0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionUniversity0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionCalifornia0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionSan Diego0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionShe0.60section
Ghost workrelated to False perceptionMTurk0.60section

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