Tech Giants Are Paying Elite Professionals to Dig Their Own Graves
Tech giants like Tencent and ByteDance are quietly launching platforms to crowdsource elite professionals—doctors, lawyers, and engineers—as gig workers to train their AI models. This isn’t just an AI talent war; it’s the commoditization of white-collar labor. They are paying experts to build the very systems that will eventually undercut their professions, turning hard-won expertise into cheap, disposable data.