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Gig workers are writing essays for AI to learn from


Companies are increasingly hiring skilled humans to write training content for AI models as the trove of online data dries up.

Companies such as Scale AI and Surge AI are hiring part-timers with graduate degrees to write essays and creative prompts for the bots to gobble up, The New York Times reported. Scale AI, for example, posted a job last year looking for people with Master's degrees or PhDs, who are fluent in either English, Hindi, or Japanese and have professional writing experience in fields like poetry, journalism, and publishing. The vast trove of online information — everything from scientific papers to news articles to Wikipedia pages — is drying up.

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