DoorDash Is Turning 8 Million Couriers Into An AI Training Machine (www.forbes.com)

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DoorDash launched a standalone Tasks app on March 19, paying its delivery couriers to complete short activities designed to train AI and robotic systems. Couriers can earn money by filming themselves washing dishes, photographing restaurant menus, or recording speech in foreign languages. Pay is disclosed upfront and calibrated to the effort and complexity of each assignment.

In the end, those couriers will be replaced by AI trained machines.

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[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

From what I’m seeing, soooo many are naive to this dynamic. They think of it like it’s the latest nifty app and not the directed disruption of the labour market that it is.

Almost like thinking and social awareness has already been outsourced to big tech’s social media empire and this is just the next step.

this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026

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