Every time it's resold, 100% of the revenue will be distributed to the Karya workers who contributed to the dataset, apportioned by the hours they put in. "I think all of us have a keen recognition of the idea that money is a cushion from reality", Chopra says of the Karya team. In addition to its $5 hourly minimum, Karya gives workers de facto ownership of the data they create on the job, so whenever it is resold, the workers receive the proceeds on top of their past wages. For the app to have the impact Chopra believes it can, he needs to win more clients - to persuade more tech companies, governments, and academic institutions to get their AI training data from Karya. Chopra tells me that Karya has only just amassed enough resellable data to be attractive to buyers; it has so far distributed $116,000 in royalties to around 4,000 workers, but the ones I've met are too early into their work to be among them. [Extracted from the article]