Faces for cookware: data collection industry flourishes as China pursues AI ambitions

By Cate Cadell PINGDINGSHAN, China (Reuters) - In a village in central China's Henan province, amid barking dogs and wandering chickens, villagers gather along a dirt road to trade images of their faces for kettles, pots and tea cups. At the front of the line, a woman stands in front of a camera zip-tied to a tripod. She holds a photograph of her head with the eyes and the nose cut out in front of her face and slowly rotates side to side

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