Companies Hiring Freelancers to Fix Poor-Quality AI-Generated Content
By
Noor Al-Sibai
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Summary
Companies that replaced human workers with AI are now hiring freelancers to fix the poor-quality output generated by those AI systems. Freelance illustrator Lisa Carstens reports that fixing AI-generated logos with fuzzy lines and garbled text now makes up much of her work, highlighting the ironic cycle of companies outsourcing to AI and then needing humans to clean up the results.
Key quotes
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