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An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like.
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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Nothing says »AI job boom« quite like humans earning pennies to draw boxes around objects so a trillion dollar industry can call the result automation. The magic of AI apparently still requires an invisible army doing digital piecework: until the machine gets good enough to automate the people who trained it.
That was kinda the plot in 007: First Light
Spoiler
The AI was sold to MI6 and had perfect accuracy. Turned out the guy who sold it sent a fix team every time it was wrong and MI6 made a "mistake" because of bad Intel, so the team could clean up the scene and make it look like the AI was right all along.