- Chinese tech giants are recruiting skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality data sets.
- Facing economic downturns and layoffs, professionals take these challenging annotation gigs as supplementary income.
- The efforts mirror U.S. platforms like Mercor and Handshake hiring domain experts to narrow the technological gap with Silicon Valley.
As a Shenzhen-based architect in her 40s, Cuicui has vast experience designing public stadiums, schools, and hospitals at an architecture firm. But over the past five years, declining government infrastructure spending caused a sharp drop in business. Her income halved.
