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The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

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The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

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Underneath all of it, the people who label the data, review the outputs and keep the models […] This story continues at The Next Web

Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address.

Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago.

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Underneath all of it, the people who label the data, review the outputs and keep the models […] This story continues at The Next Web Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago.

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Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago.

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