Data annotation companies have sprung up in lots of smaller cities.
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In China, large data-labeling workforces in counties like 贵州贵阳 and 河南洛阳 became a real source of digital economy jobs in the 2020s. Often framed positively in state media as 'AI-era piecework' (AI 时代的计件工).
usage
Functions both as a noun ('the labeling') and a verb-object pair (对数据进行标注 'to label data').
