For a while now, we've been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor.

Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code — by making it less, well, sloppy.

In an interview with NBC News, longtime freelance illustrator Lisa Carstens said fixing AI-generated logos, many of which have fuzzy lines and garbled text, now constitutes much of her work.

Sometimes the logos are designed well enough, the Spain-based illustrator told NBC, that she doesn't have to do much work to get them into gear. Other times, the companies that hire her need an entire redraw that, somehow, remains true to the contours of the orig

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