India Workers Paid to Wear Cameras for Robot Training
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- Workers in India are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data
- Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to train their machines
Why it matters: The rush to build human-replacement robots has spawned a new category of piecework in India, where manual laborers earn a premium to literally embody the training data — recording the very tasks that the resulting AI may one day automate them out of.
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