There are so many of those fake AI startups now that you could probably build a successful startup specifically to provide offshore human staffing services and workflow automation to them. During a gold rush, sell shovels.
I pitched a local language startup idea to a few companies. I was summarily tolf that it didn't have any "zing" to it. So I added "AI" in all my pitches and got a lot of interest.
Didn't pursue the idea further because I didn't really believe in it, but it just proved to me that investors often chase buzzwords instead of ideas
There was an article on here like two days ago about a company in Kenya that does training sets for big tech. 1000s of people marking cars on pictures etc