JohannesburgDoctors and lawyers are training their own replacements.
AI labs buy tacit judgment outright, a one-time sale of an asset once rented indefinitely.
Annotation vendors sit between labs and workers, keeping the output without disclosing which model any batch trained.
Workers can still refuse for now, since AI can’t yet scrape tacit expertise.
How each outlet framed it
- Rest of World leans critical
- cites South African wage disparity ($37/hr vs $2 minimum wage, 47.4% youth unemployment) as economic pressure forcing expert participation
Sources: Rest of World