Delivery workers are paid to photograph dishes for training data

Claim

DoorDash launched Tasks, letting couriers earn by photographing dishes and recording tasks, turning gig workers into sensory organs for the machine learning stack.

Reporting date: 2026-03-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to March 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)