Workers Train AI Using Expert-Labeled Data
Contractors, including displaced professionals like 'Katya,' are being hired by data firms such as Mercor (founded 2023), Scale AI, and Surge AI to produce and label training data for chatbots. Tasks include writing prompts, drafting ideal responses, and authoring rubrics; Mercor reports about 30,000 weekly workers and Scale cites over 700,000 contributors. The work pays well but is precarious, revealing a fragmented labor market powering current AI systems.
Scoring Rationale
Documents sizable labor shift supplying LLM training data, but leans on anecdotal accounts and company-reported figures.
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