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DoorDash’s New Paid 'Tasks' Turn Couriers Into AI and Robot Trainers
More than 8 million DoorDash couriers can now earn extra income by completing micro-tasks that generate original data to improve AI and robotic systems.
- On Thursday, DoorDash launched the standalone Tasks app paying Dashers to complete assignments aimed at improving AI and robotic systems.
- DoorDash says it will use Tasks content to evaluate its in-house AI models and partner models in retail, insurance, hospitality, and technology, helping systems better understand the physical world.
- Couriers can opt into listed gigs that pay upfront, with tasks like folding clothes, handwashing dishes, making a bed, or recording speech in other languages; pay varies by effort and complexity.
- In-App Tasks and the standalone Tasks app are available now in select U.S. places, excluding California, New York City, Seattle, and Colorado, and DoorDash says the pilot offers flexible earning to more than 8 million Dashers with plans to expand task types and countries.
- This joins a broader trend where gig platforms farm AI training data, with Uber piloting a similar program last year and the data annotation industry booming in recent years.
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The Independent (US)DoorDash wants to pay you to film your ‘everyday tasks’ to help train AI
The data will help AI ‘understand the physical world,’ the delivery company said
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