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Freelance workers in other countries are some of the first to adopt generative AI.
But according to Rest of World, they’re also the first ones that feel the brunt of it. While having AI skills boosts their profile in freelance portals, they will have to rely on human creativity and ingenuity to beat the robots. And well, it’s also outsourced workers that are the backbone of AI anyway.
Even the development of generative AI requires human intervention, a role that often also falls to offshore outsourced workers. Each training data set used to develop a tool like Dall-E began with a human data worker matching an image to an associated word. And content moderators help refine the model that powers ChatGPT — for example, by flagging hateful or toxic speech.
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution
[Rest of World]
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