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Uber for AI labeling
AI labeling work is getting the gig economy treatment.
A big behind-the-scenes reality of AI model training is that it requires many human workers to do tedious tasks such as selecting the most human-sounding chatbot results or labeling obstacles like pedestrians in self-driving car footage frame-by-frame. One engineer in India told Bloomberg they were tasked with comparing and rating the correctness of AI-generated responses to complex coding problems, and were paid 200 rupees per set, or about $2.37. Uber is currently signing up people from Canada, India, Poland, Nicaragua, and the US, paying different amounts per completed task with earnings issued to workers monthly.
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