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Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in 'digital sweatshops'

nternet cafes in the Philippines are now frequented by workers who sort and label data for artificial intelligence models. Photo for The Washington Post by Martin San Diego.
Washington Post
Rebecca Tan & Regine Cabato

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines - In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support the booming business of artificial intelligence.

In dingy internet cafes, jam-packed office spaces or at home, they annotate the masses of data that American companies need to train their artificial intelligence models.…