Since January, Tina Lynn Wilson of Hamilton, Ont., has been freelancing for a company called DataAnnotation.
The 45-year-old says she loves the work, which involves checking responses from an AI model for grammar, accuracy and creativity. It calls for analytical skills and an eye for detail — and she also gets some interesting projects, like choosing the better of two samples of poetry.
“Because it is a creative response, there would be no fact-checking involved. You would have to indicate … what the better reply is and why.”
The work Wilson does is part of a huge, yet not well-known, network of gig workers of the emerging AI economy. Companies such as Outlier AI and Handshake AI hire them to be "artificial intelligence trainers, contracting with large AI platforms to help them train their models.
Some data annotation work is poorly paid — even exploitative, in other parts of the world — but there's a broad range of jobs in training, tending to and correcting AI. It's labour the tech giants seem to prefer not to talk about.
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