IP 7:Digital Labour


In this IP,I was tasked with creating comic strips based on the readings assigned in the ETEC 511 class. Based on the readings by Duffy, Woodcock Johnson, and Crawford, I have decided to create a comic strips about CAPTCHA. Take a moment to consider the various types of labor depicted here. What do you see?

CAPTCHA and Labor

A six-panel comic strip about CAPTCHA challenges. 

The comic strip depicts the experience of completing CAPTCHA challenges. The first panel shows a stick figure pondering a CAPTCHA prompt asking if they are human. The second and third panels show the figure baffled by similar-looking images to select from. The fourth panel humorously reveals the figure finally logs in, questioning the effort. The fifth panel is an image of sunrise. The last panel, set "5 months ago," shows two figures. One of the person comments "Boss! I came up with a genius idea to cut costs
for our AI image software! Instead of hiring an AI training specialist, we will require all our users to go through 20 CAPTCHA challenges
before logging in!" The other praises "Genius!"
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Attribution: The 2 CAPTCHA images are genearted by DALL·E, via ChatGPT by OpenAI, generated on February 10, 2024.

SVG version of the image is available for download. The license of this image is CC by 4.0.

References

Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. In Atlas of AI. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252392

Duffy, B. E. (2017).The Aspirational Ethos: Gender, Consumerism, and Labor. In (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work (pp. 12–44). Yale University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q31skt

This work by Rie Namba is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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