Describing our interaction with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as 'collaboration' is well-intentioned, but flawed. Not only is it misleading, but it also takes away the credit of AI 'labour' from the humans behind it, and erases and obscures an often exploitative arrangement between AI producers and consumers. The AI 'collaboration' metaphor is merely the latest episode in a long history of labour appropriation and credit reassignment that disenfranchises labourers in the Global South. I propose that viewing AI as a tool or an instrument, rather than a collaborator, is more accurate, and ultimately fairer.

翻译：将我们与人工智能（AI）系统的互动描述为“协作”虽出于好意，却存在缺陷。这不仅具有误导性，还剥夺了背后人类对AI“劳动”的贡献，并掩盖和模糊了AI生产者与消费者之间常存的剥削关系。AI“协作”这一隐喻，不过是长期存在的劳动侵占与功劳再分配历史中的最新篇章，这种历史使全球南方的劳动者被剥夺了权利。我认为，将AI视为工具或仪器而非协作者，更准确，也最终更公平。