The AI gig economy is coming for you

The work, or the output, itself is not inherently bad or good. It is specifically the work conditions that make it bad or good. Providing a service like those we describe in the book, captioning a translation or cleaning training data for training algorithms--that work is often written off as mundane drudgery. Think of content moderation right now and how it's sensationalized as something horrific and terrible to do. And it's a job that actually takes quite a bit of creativity and insight and judgment.