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The Indian City Where AI Is Creating Jobs for Humans
Thursday, August 20, 2026
In Tiruppur, India, workers perform data annotation tasks for artificial intelligence systems, labeling images and text to train machine learning models. Data annotation has become an employment sector in the city, with companies hiring workers to prepare training datasets for AI applications. The work involves identifying objects in images, transcribing audio, and categorizing text used by AI developers globally.
