Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data

Educated professionals in China, including lawyers and engineers, are increasingly taking low-wage gig work to annotate data for AI training systems. This trend reflects a broader economic downturn in the country where underemployed specialists are turning to temporary labor in their own fields to cover living expenses. By leveraging their professional expertise to refine these models, these workers are essentially contributing to the automation of their own trades to maintain financial stability.