Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data
Rest of World Viola Zhou
China’s expert professionals, including architects and software engineers, are taking gig work on data-annotation platforms to train AI models on real work tasks as government support for “high quality data sets” grows.
Why it matters
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.
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