I Tried DoorDash’s Tasks App and Saw the Bleak Future of AI Gig Work

DoorDash has launched a 'Tasks' app where gig workers are paid to record themselves performing mundane daily activities like doing laundry and cooking to train AI systems. This represents a dystopian evolution of gig work where humans become data generators for their own replacement, highlighting the exploitative nature of using precarious workers to build the AI systems that may ultimately eliminate their jobs.