DoorDash and Uber tap gig workers to collect data for everything from training AI to stocking stores

DoorDash now lets users train AI or photograph store shelves.

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• DoorDash is offering gig workers new tasks, such as photographing store shelves and training AI.
• Other companies, such as Uber and Instacart, are experimenting with similar gigs.
• It shows how gig work is expanding beyond delivery and ride-hailing.

Forget delivering food or driving people to the airport: Training AI and snapping photos of store shelves might be the gig work of the future.