China's Experts Train AI as Gig Workers — SkimNews
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- China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to train AI models in their exact professional trades
- Workers cite a stagnant Chinese economy and state directives as the squeeze, with the immediate motivation being paying this month's mortgage
Why it matters: A stagnant Chinese economy and state directives are pushing credentialed professionals — lawyers, architects, engineers — into cheap piecework training AI in their own fields just to cover monthly mortgages, collapsing the line between white-collar careers and gig labor.
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