AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own

AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources ...

Remotasks employs you to train AI. But the pay is peanuts and in the end you’re expendable.

Freelancers who sign up with the site complain about doing hours of training only to find an empty work queue.
InfoWorld

Final training of AI models is a fraction of their total cost

Those poor AI companies are paying for a lot more than just training runs, explaining their sensitivity to threats such as ...

AI training companies are offering up to $150 an hour to get Wall Streeters to train their models

AI needs help to become a passable investment banker. Here's how much companies are paying those who train it.

Does the AI business model have a fatal flaw?

Hundreds of billions of dollars are riding on the assumption that artificial intelligence will be reliable enough for ...
CNBC

34-year-old entrepreneur earns $200 an hour from side gig training AI models: 'Intellectual curiosity drew me in'

Utkarsh Amitabh says he definitely wasn't in the market for a new job in January 2025, when data labeling startup micro1 approached him about joining its network of human experts who help companies ...

AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted

A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their ...