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The job title for humans teaching AI what a stop sign is, one click at a time.
means A person or tool that assigns names, tags, or categories to data, items, or objects so they can be sorted, tracked, or understood.
from Straightforward agent-noun construction: 'label' — from Old French 'label/lambel,' meaning a ribbon or strip of cloth, especially one hanging as a decorative band or badge — plus the agent suffix '-er,' meaning 'one who does the action.' The word 'label' drifted from cloth strips to the small slips of paper or writing identifying objects by the 1600s, and 'labeler' simply names whoever (or whatever) does that identifying — only recently drafted into service tagging photos of stop signs for machine learning datasets.
- hidden workforce
- millions label data behind every chatbot's confidence
- pay rate
- often under two dollars per hour globally
- irony
- low-paid humans quietly train billion-dollar algorithms
- origin
- predates AI, once meant price-tagging guns in retail