Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them
It doesn’t matter if Oskarina Fuentes is at a medical appointment an hour from her home in the mountain town of Caldas in Colombia. Nor does it matter if it’s 2 o’ clock in the morning.
When her phone vibrates with a WhatsApp alert from her “Task Hunters” group, she has little time to react.
Fuentes, 35, rushes to her computer and logs on to Appen, an artificial-intelligence data platform where she has been tagging data for the past decade. She works quickly as she competes with thousands of oth...
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