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NYT reports data annotation work creating jobs in Indian city

Workers in south India train AI systems on tasks traditionally done by humans, in a fast-growing field of data annotation.

What to know

  • Data annotation—labeling data to train AI systems—is a fast-growing employment field.
  • A small south Indian city has become a center for this work, where employees train AI on human tasks.
  • The story raises questions about the sustainability and future of such jobs as AI improves.

Jeremy W. Peters NYT reporterHari Kumar NYT reporterAnindito Mukherjee NYT reporter

The record 3 articles and posts · last 30 days

  1. The Indian City Where AI Is Creating Jobs for Humans press · NYT · Jeremy W. Peters, Hari Kumar and Anindito Mukherjee · 40d ago · +2 outlets
  2. Data annotation is creating jobs post · Hacker News · ripe · 39d ago · 2▲ · 1 comments
  3. Where A.I. Is Creating Jobs for Humans — For a While https://www. nytimes.com/2026/08/20/world/a… post · Mastodon · newyorktimes@flipboard.com · 40d ago