How to Train for a Job

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Workers get paid for the tasks that they complete, but if they don't do them well you're banned. There's a really spiky demand for this sort of work and it can pay as low as $1 an hour. Workers end up teaching each other by doing YouTube tutorials or Google meets where they try to teach each other what these instructions actually mean. "It cannot pay all the bills," one worker said.

We are used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza pulls back the curtain on the vast network of human labor that powers AI.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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