{"id":1030870,"date":"2026-08-24T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030870"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:38:19","slug":"an-ai-job-boom-heres-what-the-tedious-temporary-work-in-data-labelling-is-actually-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/an-ai-job-boom-heres-what-the-tedious-temporary-work-in-data-labelling-is-actually-like\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI job boom? Here\u2019s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Aug 24 (The Conversation) Amid all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) both creating and destroying jobs, a troubling reality flies under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>The tasks machines can&#8217;t perform well are often offloaded onto marginalised global workers who are struggling in precarious labour markets. They do ostensibly &#8220;automated&#8221; work under exploitative conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Aug 24 (The Conversation) Amid all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) both creating and destroying jobs, a troubling reality flies under the radar. The tasks machines can&#8217;t perform well are often offloaded onto marginalised global workers who are struggling in precarious labour markets. They do ostensibly &#8220;automated&#8221; work under exploitative conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030871,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030870\/revisions\/1030871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}