Rest of World: Chinese White-Collar Class Moonlights as Gig-Rate AI Trainers for Alibaba, ByteDance

Rest of World reports Chinese architects, lawyers, engineers and doctors are turning to specialist AI-training gigs for 100-500 yuan ($15-$74) per task on platforms including Alibaba's Siriser, ByteDance's Xpert (50,000+ experts recruited) and Tencent's Moonshot pipeline. Beijing officially endorsed data annotation as flexible employment for graduates in June; the training-data market is projected to reach 7.8B yuan ($1.1B) in 2026, up 25% YoY.