https://s3h.com/tags/gig-economy/ Recent content in Gig Economy on S3H.com Hugo en-us Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://s3h.com/ai-companies-pay-25-an-hour-to-film-your-chores-how-ordinary-bodies-became-the-scarcest-training-data/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://s3h.com/ai-companies-pay-25-an-hour-to-film-your-chores-how-ordinary-bodies-became-the-scarcest-training-data/ <p>A staffing manager walks into a café in downtown San Francisco and hands out small packages. Inside each one is an elastic headband with a phone mount. The instructions are simple: strap it to your forehead, go home, and film yourself doing the dishes. Roughly two hours of usable footage pays about $80. One longtime gig worker, who has delivered food and hung Christmas lights for a living, summed up the appeal without much ceremony — he has to do the chores anyway, so he may as well be paid for them.</p>