Many of these older Venezuelans have turned to online gig work — and in particular “clickwork,” a type of cloudwork in which people earn pennies by labeling and annotating data to train AI systems. In 2021, Julian Posada, an assistant professor at Yale University and a member of the law school’s Information Society Project, published data analysis from web traffic aggregator websites, focusing on platforms that crowdsource data work. Posada identified that after the U.S., Venezuela hosts the largest number of data workers in the world.
支撑着这些「高科技」的 AI 行业的人，其实都是来自像委内瑞来这样地方的边缘群体。