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Through outlining the hidden systems behind AI training and urgencies related to worker’s rights, the installation recreates the hostile environment of a fictitious abandoned office. 

Cognitive capitalism found fertile grounds in pandemic lockdowns and changed working conditions, normalising home offices, where the invisibility of the human labour behind AI can be exploited to the core. 

Two content moderators can be heard having a conversation in which neglected basic working conditions at their workplace take central stage. They work at a secondary outsourcing company, where NDAs prohibit them from dis-closing any information about their work and conveniently make any form of protesting or unionisation impossible.