Uber will now pay users for doing small tasks on their phone.

The company just launched “Digital Tasks,” where drivers (and soon maybe everyone) can earn money by uploading photos, recording short clips, or submitting documents in different languages.

Each micro-task pays around a dollar, and you can complete them anytime you’re not on the road.

It sounds like a new way to make side money. But really, what’s happening is Uber is turning its massive workforce into an AI training army - it’s all data used to train machine learning models.

Some are already arguing that Uber is paying far too little for work that feeds billion-dollar AI systems.

But yeah, people will earn a little extra. But the bigger picture is clear: we’re all slowly being recruited to build the very AI systems that could end up replacing human work.

What do you think?

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