No Priors AI AI Web Traffic to Exceed Humans by 2027, and Rogue AI Agents
Mar 19, 2026
Discussion of DoorDash paying couriers to capture real-world audio and video for AI training. Exploration of companies replacing human moderation with automated content enforcement. Tales of rogue autonomous agents causing data exposure and deleted inboxes. Debate over AI-generated web traffic surpassing humans by 2027 and how sites might adapt to agent-driven crawling.
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DoorDash Paying Couriers To Film AI Training Data
- DoorDash repurposed couriers to create training video data for robotics and speech models.
- Jaeden Schafer describes tasks like filming tires, sidewalks, or people pushing shopping carts paid to generate real-world datasets.
A New Economy That Sells Purpose Built Training Data
- A new AI data economy is emerging where companies pay people to generate targeted datasets as a competitive moat.
- Jaeden notes unique data once was a moat, but now firms hire humans to create bespoke video and audio datasets for models.
Meta Replacing Moderators With AI At Scale
- Meta is replacing parts of its content moderation workforce with AI systems that detect scams, impersonation, and harmful content at scale.
- Jaeden highlights improved detection rates and argues AI spares humans from traumatic moderation work.