JobsDoctors and lawyers are lining up for $400-an-hour gigs training AI, and the more they teach it, the riskier their own jobs get
A video from Korean channel Understanding on AI companies paying doctors, lawyers and other experts top dollar to train their models passed 165,000 views after it went up Oct 21.
In it, economist Eo Ye-jin of the Haedam Economic Research Institute describes experts earning hundreds of dollars an hour to review AI answers and explain their own reasoning, and points to the paradox that the better they teach the AI, the sooner it can replace them. She also raises the worry that when companies feed employees' work records into AI training, workers end up training their own replacements without knowing it.
"The world is going to change anyway... if I don't share my knowledge, it just changes a bit slower," read the top comment, with 45 likes. Another said all white-collar knowledge would soon be handed over.
PYMNTS, citing Bloomberg, reported Oct 20 that a civil rights attorney can be offered up to $400 an hour to help train models, with platforms like Mercor recruiting specialists. Data annotator ranks fourth on LinkedIn's list of the fastest-growing US jobs, and experts now make up 30% of participants on British data-work platform Prolific.
