India risks repeating its IT-services pattern in AI: annotation work but little owned IP
Shahules786 · x · 2026-09-05
Shahules786 argues India won the internet wave through IT services but captured little of the product layer — and worries AI is repeating the pattern: abundant Indian labor is being funneled into annotation workforces for global labs via US data vendors. Useful income for individuals, but does it compound into models, products, or IP that India owns?
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