The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs | AFP

### TL;DR Indian workers strap phones to their heads to film themselves doing household chores, providing training data for AI robots at a rate of 250 rupees per hour. Each day, they capture over 90 actions across different scenes and angles. ## The Job: Recording Every Move with a Phone In India, some workers are training future AI robots in an unusual way. They earn 250 rupees per hour, repeating household chores or other manual labor in various backgrounds and angles, all while a phone strapped to their head continuously records their movements. The phone's camera detects hand positions in real time, but frequently displays a "hand not detected" prompt. One worker noted: "Honestly, sometimes it's annoying because it keeps shouting, and your ears are here, but the phone is on the other side." ## Scale and Variation of Data Collection Workers need to film around 90+ videos each day. To cover a comprehensive range of perspectives, they change positions and directions daily: "Today I sit here facing this direction; tomorrow I might stand here. The day after, I could switch to over there." Every action is adjusted for different objects to ensure every angle is recorded. ## Views on the Future Workers believe that despite a future filled with robots and AI, human presence remains indispensable: "Because the data we provide—without human data, these things cannot function." The painstakingly recorded videos and motion data are exactly the critical resources that current AI training relies on. --- Source: The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs | AFP (https://youtu.be/JQoPoLUJWic?si=Z7A2dxBmZRd_4vWA)