«In the early 2000s, as something of a human annotator avant la lettre, Farocki was hardly able to imagine the drudgery of today’s extraction and exploitation in an AI industry that had not yet arisen. He couldn’t yet relate it to the living labor—rendered invisible, though increasingly organized—in the archipelago of sweatshops and the globally distributed ‹computer vision lab› where click workers and content moderators toil in the Global South. ... Nevertheless, Farocki clearly recognized how images used in operations function as effective means of exclusion, destruction, and the rendering invisible of entire populations.» (Tom Holert) #OperativeImages https://www.e-flux.com/journal/162/6776863/beneath-the-information-the-operation-harun-farocki-and-the-work-of-images