The project examines how generative AI is reshaping labor processes in the creative and cultural industries of East Asia’s largest metropolises, such as Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo. Theoretically, drawing on critical AI studies, the project examines how technological innovation driven by big tech companies intensifies the precariousness of human work, particularly creative and cultural work. Employing an inter-thematic framework spanning AI automation, labor processes, power dynamics, and data rights, the project combines survey data with in-depth interviews of artists and creative professionals conducted in Taipei and Seoul. The project’s ultimate aim is to publish a comprehensive issue report on AI and creative working conditions, as well as a peer-reviewed academic article. Both publications will illuminate the impact of generative AI on cognitive and creative labor in East Asian contexts.
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