The World Cup's AI-powered statistics come with a hidden cost: thousands of human data workers. Reporting from Rest of World, annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are manually tracking every player movement on the pitch. Their work feeds AI systems that teams and broadcasters rely on for live analysis and statistics. It's a vivid example of how 'AI-powered' often masks the human labor underneath.

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