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Title: A New White-Collar Gig Economy: Training AI To Take Over

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/06/1824257/a...

AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to
train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI,
Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to
improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional settings. Mercor
advertises roles for medical secretaries, movie directors and private
detectives at rates ranging from $20 to $185 per hour for contract work and
up to $200,000 for full-time positions. Surge AI offers as much as $1,000 per
hour for expertise from startup CEOs and venture capital partners. Mercor
pays out over $1.5 million daily to professionals it hires for clients
including OpenAI and Anthropic. Some contractors are former employees of
Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. Others moonlight in this work while keeping their
regular jobs. Brendan Foody, Mercor's 22-year-old CEO, acknowledged at a
conference last week that trade secrets could potentially be compromised
given the volume of work submitted. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on this
week's earnings call that some AI training gigs on its platform require PhDs.

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