Altenried's book, [The Digital Factory(external)](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo123166001.html) approaches [[automation]], and our various romanticized versions of automation from a human labor approach. He deals less with philosophies of artificial intelligence or cybernetics but gives a very concrete analysis of the many outsourced "automated" jobs afforded by contemporary regimes of globalization. What Altenried finds is that gestures toward automation often hide an underbelly of some terrible labor conditions that are just out of sight for most consumers. For instance, people in the know are probably familiar enough "automatic" with image moderation that impels workers elsewhere to manually sort through traumatic images.