FEATURE-AI boom is dream and nightmare for workers in Global South


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But it's still better than nothing," said Raj, who sometimes rents out his ID to members of a Facebook group of Indian workers on Amazon MTurk. "There is some rhetoric about data annotation creating new opportunities for people who need flexibility, or need to work from home. WOMEN WORKERS India is one of the world's largest markets for data annotation labour, with up to 1 million full-time and part-time workers likely by 2030, according to IT industry body NASSCOM. Less than a fourth of Indian workers on the platform are women, it said. So when she heard about Infolks, a data annotation firm that was close to her home and hiring women, she was excited.