"AI depends on the exploitation of artists, data annotators, and engineers, among others, according to this damning exposé . The grim real-life stories read like dystopian parables." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Muldoon, Graham, and Cant . look beneath the hood of some of technology''s most heralded advances brings to public awareness critical issues regarding AI, its colonial roots, and its exploitative tendencies that society would do well to discuss and debate sooner rather than later . sobering and timely." -- Kirkus Reviews " Feeding the Machine may just be the most important book to be written in the current fever of A.I. publishing.

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