The Humans Quietly Powering Your Favourite AI Tools
We tend to treat AI like magic. You type a prompt, something clever comes back, and it feels like software pulling answers out of the air. The reality is a lot less mystical and, honestly, a lot more interesting. Behind almost every AI tool you love is a crowd of ordinary people who did small, specific jobs that taught the thing how to behave. The magic runs on human effort. Piles of it. Which is a fun thing to know about the tools we all use now. It's also a door, because some of that work is open to regular people, and it pays a bit.
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