An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like

Fan Yang , The University of Melbourne Image: Elise Racine , CC BY Amid all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) both creating and destroying jobs, a troubling reality flies under the radar. The tasks machines can’t perform well are often offloaded onto marginalised global workers who are struggling in precarious labour markets. They do ostensibly “automated” work under exploitative…