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A tweet speculates about humans working for AI in a new gig economy, while Poke announces 'Poke Human'—a service where humans assist its AI agent, now in preview for Ultra subscribers.
A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai earns ₹250/hour filming her daily housework for AI companies training humanoid robots, as part of a growing gig economy where thousands in India record everyday tasks to train future robots.
Indian workers, paid 250 rupees per hour, strap phones to their heads to record themselves doing household chores, providing training data for AI robots. They film over 90 different scenes and angles of actions every day, highlighting the labor issues behind AI training.
The article criticizes the double standard: people claim there is a surplus of delivery drivers while accusing platforms of using algorithms to exploit ride-hailing drivers, and questions why they don't admit that the oversupply of ride-hailing drivers is also causing everyone to be unable to make money.
Tech companies like Shift and Pronto are offering free services or payment to record people doing chores in order to gather training data for physical AI and robotics, raising privacy and ethical concerns.
MicroAGI's Shift app offers free home cleaning in New York City in exchange for recording the cleaning sessions with head-mounted cameras to collect training data for robots.
Human Archive, a Silicon Valley startup, has raised $8.2 million to collect first-person video data from Indian gig workers to train robots for physical tasks. Despite rejections from major home services platforms, the company is partnering with other firms in the sector.
Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts have formed the first ride-share union in the United States, marking a significant development in gig-economy labor organizing.
A Wired writer spends a week recording herself doing household chores to generate egocentric video data for training humanoid robots, exploring the growing gig-economy trend of human data collection for AI.
This article reports on Fiverr's strategic transformation towards an AI-driven marketplace, launching the intelligent matching engine Fiverr Neo, and analyzes the impact of AI tools on freelancers' income models, pointing out that hourly billing leads to a 60% income decline and suggesting a shift to value-based pricing.
Clouted is a startup using AI and a network of gig creators to automate the clipping and distribution of short videos, aiming to take the guesswork out of going viral. It recently raised $7 million in seed funding from investors including Slow Ventures.
A Hollywood screenwriter details the transition from TV writing to AI training gigs amidst industry instability following the 2023 strikes. The article highlights the harsh realities of the AI labor market, including red-teaming tasks and gig platform dynamics.
An investigation reveals the precarious conditions of the hidden workforce labeling data for ChatGPT, with nearly 1 in 5 having experienced homelessness, highlighting a new gig economy driven by Big Tech.