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My cousin in Toledo got laid off from the plant in March, and by June he had a new job reviewing AI training data from his couch
Three years ago that same warehouse job was the safest bet in his family. Now the company runs a robot arm on half the floor and pays him $17 an hour to rate whether chat answers sound polite, which feels like training his own replacement. Is it fair that companies cut jobs and then hire the same people back to label the data that makes the software work? I keep going back and forth on whether that counts as a lifeline or just a slower layoff.
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butler.abby7d ago
Did he basically trade one shaky job for another one that pays even less? My brother went through the same thing last year when the auto parts place he worked at brought in some sorting system, and now he sits at home doing contract work tagging pictures for AI companies for like $15 an hour with no benefits. The part that gets me is they make you feel lucky to have it, like you should be thankful you're not totally out of work. But he's basically teaching a machine to do the exact job he lost, and once it learns good enough, they won't need him for that either.
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