Testimonies from online workers expose the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence, where invisible hands train machines to see, revealing asymmetries of power, technology, and exploitation.
What does it take to teach a machine to see? This documentary unfolds through testimonies and screen recordings from online workers in Venezuela, Kenya, and the Philippines who annotate data for self-driving cars. Their voices reveal not only the hidden toil and neocolonial structures underpinning artificial intelligence, but also the micro-strategies and collective efforts that allow them to reclaim agency. A vital portrait of unseen labour, it questions how technology shapes our world without consent.
