The cover of issue 169 of The Continent by Marc Pohl depicts a data worker with long hair, wearing a collared shirt and jeans, sweeping a globe covered in cellphones. The picture is drawn in black and white and shows the headline: "Doing Silicon Valley's dirty work"

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   Welcome to Issue 169 of The Continent.

   Dirty deeds done dirt cheap: Artificial Intelligence is not as artificial as it says on the box. In fact, programs like ChatGPT and Copilot rely on millions of data workers – actual humans – to do the grunt work. It’s tedious, underpaid, and often traumatic. No wonder much of the work is outsourced to vulnerable communities in the global south.