DoorDash's Tasks App: Gig Workers Feed the AI Beast, One Video at a Time
A DoorDash courier scrubs dishes under a body cam, raking in DoorDash bucks while training tomorrow's robots. Sounds like side hustle gold—until you smell the corporate grift.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- DoorDash pays couriers for videos and tasks to train AI and robots, turning gig workers into data collectors.
- Echoes Amazon Mechanical Turk: cheap, crowdsourced physical-world data at scale.
- Skeptical view—corporate exploitation masked as flexible earnings, with privacy red flags.
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Originally reported by TechCrunch - AI
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