ShenzhenCuicui, a Shenzhen architect, now trains AI systems.
Her judgment now sells piece-rate, without royalty, to its replacement.
AI training has shifted from scraped text to purchased expert demonstrations, making credentialed attention the binding input, not compute.
Which platforms pay her, and who owns the judgment in China, remains undisclosed.
How each outlet framed it
- Rest of World
- frames expert-turned-AI-trainers as casualties of economic decline — architect's halved income forces expertise monetization
Sources: Rest of World