“After the Snow, a Data Rater” depicts a so-called AI trainer, or more precisely — a data evaluator. This is the most lowest-level outsourced job in the booming artificial intelligence industry of recent years: requiring long hours staring at a screen, clicking and labeling, with extremely tedious work. Data evaluators provide standardized human cognitive labor. In an environment of platform-based outsourcing and global competition, this type of work has low bargaining power, limited compensation, is disproportionate to the intensity of the work, and in reality often exhibits exploitative characteristics. Due to the nature of the work, the location appears very flexible — all one needs is an internet connection and a computer. This is also characteristic of many jobs in the age of AI, but it also means work becomes more fragmented and short-term, facing competition from a global labor force. The artist found a photograph he had taken earlier — a picture of a friend — which had been sitting in his archive for a long time without being used. Then he came across an article describing the working conditions of data evaluators at the very bottom of the AI industry. The evaluator in the accompanying photograph was striking the same pose as his friend in the archived image. He used the interior of his own studio as the working environment for the figure in the painting, creating a romanticized atmosphere through the flowers in the foreground and the snowy scene outside the window. This forms a sharply contrasting disconnection from the content the work expresses — namely, an operational mechanism that is more efficient for the market but more brutal for the individual.