behind the scenes of this new market

When we talk about artificial intelligence, we often imagine an abstract world made of algorithms. We forget that humans are there to create it and flood it with data. To exist, AI must be fed by an army of little hands who tell it how to act and think. For its cheap labor, the Philippines has become the specialists in the activity. Tens of thousands of young people feed AI day and night.

In the capital, Manila, an entrepreneur has decided to make AI his specialty. Here, 300 full-time employees annotate data all day long for autonomous cars or trains, but also for the fields of medicine or agriculture. This job does not require any diploma. However, some annotators are beginning to denounce this work as exploitation.

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