The Mechanical Turkness: Tactical Media Art and the Critique of Corporate AI
<|reference_start|>The Mechanical Turkness: Tactical Media Art and the Critique of Corporate AI: The extensive industrialization of artificial intelligence (AI) since the mid-2010s has increasingly motivated artists to address its economic and sociopolitical consequences. In this chapter, I discuss interrelated art practices that thematize creative agency, crowdsourced labor, and delegated artmaking to reveal the social rootage of AI technologies and underline the productive human roles in their development. I focus on works whose poetic features indicate broader issues of contemporary AI-influenced science, technology, economy, and society. By exploring the conceptual, methodological, and ethical aspects of their effectiveness in disrupting the political regime of corporate AI, I identify several problems that affect their tactical impact and outline potential avenues for tackling the challenges and advancing the field.<|reference_end|>
@article{grba2024the,
    title={The Mechanical Turkness: Tactical Media Art and the Critique of
  Corporate AI},
    author={Dejan Grba},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.17490},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.17490},
    primaryClass={cs.CY cs.AI}
}