‘Side job, self-employed, high-paid’: behind the AI slop flooding TikTok and Facebook.
In places like India, Vietnam and China, churning out weird AI videos is the latest side hustle for students and stay-at-home mothers.
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Creators posting AI content may not be the kind of people we expect. As Xiaonan told us, many of the people taking his AI tutorial – entitled “Side job, self-employed, high-paid” – are housewives, unemployed people and college students.
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