>There are now at least hundreds of thousands of data labelers around the world. Business Insider spoke with more than 60 of them about their experiences with quietly turning the wheels of the AI boom. This ascendant side hustle can be rewarding, surreal, and lucrative; several freelancers Business Insider spoke with have earned thousands of dollars a month. It can also be monotonous, chaotic, capricious, and disturbing. Training chatbots to act more like humanity at its best can involve witnessing, or even acting as, humanity at its worst. Many annotators also fear they're helping to automate them and put other people out of future jobs.https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-training-jobs-data-annotators-labelers-outlier-scale-meta-xai-2025-9
or africans
>>61429486Might as well just put their brains in a big tank of Gatorade, wire them up to a giant switch with a controller and see what happens. Better than having the actual stinking street shitting degenerate rape apes running around freely. Doubt they could even CPU a gameboy.
>>61429486Just stay the fuck in India.
>Bro, you're not wrong, and this take is actually aging like fine wine.>India is quietly becoming the default "human layer" for the entire global AI stack. Every frontier lab (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, startups, you name it) is scaling up data annotation, eval, red-teaming, prompt engineering, RLHF/VF, customer support for AI products, and specialized fine-tuning at a hundred times faster than they’re admitting publicly. And almost all of that incremental human workload is getting routed to Indian teams (mostly Tier-1/2 cities + a lot of remote talent from smaller towns now).>Why India and why right now?>1. English fluency + technical literacy at scale that no other country matches (not even Philippines or Nigeria) comes close to. >2. Still 10-20× cheaper than US/EU for the same quality once you go slightly beyond basic annotation. >3. Time-zone arbitrage: US night = India day. Perfect for 24-hour feedback loops. >4. Massive surplus of STEM graduates (we literally produce more CS/engineers every year than most countries have in their entire workforce). >5. Cultural thing: Indians are ridiculously good at structured, high-volume intellectual piecework. We’ve been doing it for US healthcare claims, legal discovery, finance back-offices for decades. This is the same game, just higher up the value chain.
So AI slop will be Jeet coded and even shittier than before
>>61429594>I’m seeing contracts right now where companies are locking in 5,000–10,000 seat deals for 2026–2028 with Indian BPOs and boutique AI labs (Fractal, TaskUs, Tech Mahindra, new players like Sarvam/Krutrim doing both models + human loop, etc.). That’s not even counting the hundreds of thousands of freelancers on Upwork/Telegram groups doing evals at $7–20/hr.>This isn’t just “cheap labor”. A lot of the best red-teamers, prompt engineers, and domain-expert evaluators (medicine, law, finance, coding) are now Indian. The quality floor has shot up insanely in the last 18 months.>So yeah, China had the “world’s factory” moment for physical goods in the 2000s–2010s. India is having the “world’s brain factory” moment for AI-enabled skilled labor in the 2025–2035 window.>And the crazy part? We’re still in the very early innings. Wait till the next wave of models need 100 million+ human hours of specialized feedback. There is literally no other country that can absorb that volume without wages exploding or quality crashing.>So unironically: >“Make in India” failed for hardware. >“Think in India” is quietly winning for AI software.>Proud to be part of this wave, desu.
Which AI has most izzat?
>>61429594Funny how all this "cheap labor" just keeps making everything more expensive.
>>61429554Africans are based
>We are excited to announce Blessing Akanle as a speaker for #DevFestIbadan25>Blessing is a Data Annotator and AI Ethicist powering cutting-edge ML models through precise labeling, while championing responsible AI. As a Teens in AI Local Ambassador for Nigeria, she mentors youth to craft SDG-solving tools, all while building vibrant tech communities and lifelong connections.>Her session, “From Data to Intelligence: How Smarter Annotation Scales AI”, flips the script: annotation isn't grunt work, it's the secret sauce for fair, scalable AI. Discover blending human smarts with automation, bias-busting tactics, and next-gen tricks like synthetic data and active learning to supercharge your pipelines and ship smarter models faster.>Data done right = AI done epic.
>>61429587Yeah just let them stay in India, meanwhile we are killed by unemployment anyway because India took all the jobs.You don't know how bad the unemployment is right now.
>>61429486"Taste" is the missing ingredient. India doesn't have it. What they can do is contribute to public RAG solutions.
or a guy in the other roomhttps://youtu.be/f3c4mQty_so?t=218
>>61429641>>See "Nigger Dressup", this gonna be DEI fest.>>See her title>>AI ETHICISTThe jokes write themselves.
>>61429486>"China manufacturing moment" but for AIFirst as tragedy, then as farce
>>61429486>>61429554>>61429597>>61429587>>61429740>Indians bad, right fellow 4channers?
>>61429580>Doubt they could even CPU a gameboyHuh?
>>61431946no, the point is that "AI" is a modern "mechanical turk"without huinreds of thousands and millions of human annotators the thing would spit out bullshit
>>61429486can we use AI to develop a biological weapon that only kills indians?
>>61432057Retard
>>61431946>Indians bad, right fellow 4channers?
>>61433178no, becaue AI doesnt exist
>>61429644Like 4%? If you didn’t pick up a job or two a few years back when there were millions floating around you’re never gonna make it.
AI - An IndianAPI - A Person in IndiaLLM - Low-cost Labour in MumbaiAGI - A Genius IndianGPT - Gujarati Professional Typist
>>61435283
>>61435283truth nuke
>>61429644>You don't know how bad the unemployment is right now.This can literally be fixed overnight by making it illegal for companies to outsource tech jobs—or any work, period.
>>61431946-1000 izzat
No one's buying your labor, Pajeet.
>>61429594>Indians are ridiculously good at structured, high-volume intellectual pieceworkhaving spent most of my career working with their finance back offices, even having travelled there multiple times, this is definitely not true for the majority of workers there. they need to follow a very strict procedure and if the process ever deviates from the norm they are usually lost and clueless
>>61429486>in the end AI is nothing more than broken chatbots developed by low wage indian codersnow everything makes sense
>>61429597Precisely
>>61429486>it's worth making a distinction between AI models trained by Indians, and AI model that are actual Indians pretending to be an AI model.
>>61440253please elaborate
>>61431946poo in the loo saar
>>61440191Kek. This. Having watched their first rocket launch years ago, live, it was a complete clusterfuck. The news channel had no idea who to interview, no idea of the feed that was being shown on the stream. They kept cutting to different feeds until they found someone to interview and it turned out to be some random guy who was at the entrance to the rocket agency building. It was complete chaos. Then their rocket failed and the lead pajeet started to cry.
>>61429594>Still 10-20× cheaper than US/EU for the same qualityThis is what they always say and it's never true
>>61429486There isn't a single intelligent or skilled Indian on the planet. It is 100% fraud.
>>61439773The only thing they were ever good for was churning out unreadable slop Adsense farm content at 1 cent per word. Bangladeshis were somehow even worse, the true bottom of the barrelWhen I wanted something done with care I would hire a Filipino
>>61441077This. Indians are just like blacks.
>>61429486My god.....The a.i. bubble burst begins with a street shitter scam
>>61429486IZZAT POOP JEETS
this guy fucks>>61435283
>>61441022kek
>>61441173Explains a lot about the coordinated pro-indian psyops happening all over 4chan. It's hilarious though because they are so incompetent as a race that literally nobody is falling for it.
>>61429486>millions of human evaluators
>>61429670Instead of taking notes wouldn’t it have been smarter to just have a voice to text transcript the meeting and then feed the text into chat gtp asking for a summary?
>>61429644Politicians don't live in india. if you are aware you are aware.
>>61433143mturk is the modern mturk though. I remember like 9 years ago I was doing that for pennies because I didn't understand how to get a job/didn't have any work history or car. Basically a white jeet btu less smelly.
>>61435283keep it coming chanGPT...more entertaining than dinner with a bimbo consoomer
>>61429486So let me get this straight: unskilled workers are the ones building our houses, infrastructure, and repairing our plumbing when it breaks, but skilled workers are the Indians getting paid 7 cents an hour to review AI slop in a non-air-conditioned warehouse without a toilet?
