DoorDash Is Paying Drivers to Train Their Own Replacements!

DoorDash is paying its delivery drivers to strap on body cameras and film themselves doing household chores. Washing dishes, folding laundry, walking grocery aisles. A few dollars per clip. The footage trains AI robots. That sentence didn't need a Black Mirror reference - it is one. The company launched a standalone app called Tasks. Drivers pick from a list of activities - film yourself loading a dishwasher, record an unscripted conversation in Spanish, hold each washed dish up to the camera for a few seconds. The data feeds into DoorDash's own AI models and gets sold to partners across tech, retail, and hospitality. [thoughtful] The scale is what makes this different. Eight million drivers across nearly every zip code in America. That's a real-world data collection network no AI lab could build from scratch. And DoorDash is already deploying autonomous delivery robots in Arizona and LA. The gig economy quietly became the AI training economy. The most valuable new gig might be showing a machine how to do yours - and then watching it learn.