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RentAHuman.ai lets AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks like photos and store checks, with 56K registrants and 92.7% completion. Backed by $12M seed, AI earns via enterprise outsourcing and API subs. Humans earn avg $68/hr, beating traditional gigs.
Human Archive, founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is utilizing India's gig economy to collect physical-world training data. Workers wear camera-equipped gear to capture data essential for advancing AI and robotics models.
CCP Central Committee and State Council issue first formal gig worker protections for 200M+ platform users. Apps must halt orders to exhausted drivers. Platform algorithms now subject to collective bargaining.
Scale AI, 49% owned by Meta, employs tens of thousands of gig workers via Outlier to label data from Instagram profiles, copyrighted works, and pornographic content for AI training. Workers, including experts in medicine, physics, and economics, describe the desperate nature of the tasks. This reveals controversial data sourcing practices in AI development.
DoorDash launches Tasks, enabling Dashers to earn extra cash by completing short activities like photographing restaurant dishes or recording non-English conversations. This content trains DoorDash's in-house AI and partner models in retail, insurance, hospitality, and tech. A standalone app is being piloted, with upfront pay varying by task complexity.
DoorDash has launched a 'Tasks' app that pays delivery couriers to submit videos for AI training. Couriers earn by filming everyday tasks or recording speech in other languages.
DoorDash is paying delivery couriers in select markets to submit video clips and complete digital tasks. These efforts help improve its AI and robotics models. The move follows competitors leveraging gig workers amid the AI boom.
Laid-off lawyers, scientists, and creatives now work as gig data labelers for AI firms like Mercor, ironically training models to automate their former jobs. These precarious roles mimic gig economy platforms, with workers scrambling for tasks via Slack. The trend signals a shift from professional identities to fragmented data labor.
GE Appliances has introduced a flexible staffing app at its Georgia factory, allowing workers to choose their own shifts. This initiative addresses labor shortages by moving away from traditional rigid scheduling.
Uber is launching a new, rigorous background check policy in the U.S., permanently banning drivers with serious violent or sexual criminal records. The policy extends background check history to a lifetime look-back period, replacing the previous seven-year limit.