Robot Training Data Is Turning Labor Into Infrastructure

A man in southern India folds hand towels while wearing a GoPro on his forehead. The point is not surveillance for its own sake; according to Los Angeles Times reporting, the footage becomes robot training data for a U.S. client trying to teach machines to perform real-world tasks. If that sounds like a story about robots replacing workers, it is. But that is not the most important part. The more important frame is this: labor is being reclassified as AI infrastructure. Workers are no longer on...