{"id":20049,"date":"2025-09-11T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/how-thousands-of-overworked-underpaid-humans-train-googles-ai-to-seem-smart\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:37:42","slug":"how-thousands-of-overworked-underpaid-humans-train-googles-ai-to-seem-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/how-thousands-of-overworked-underpaid-humans-train-googles-ai-to-seem-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"How thousands of \u2018overworked, underpaid\u2019 humans train Google\u2019s AI to seem smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of content creation. On her first day a week later, however, her expectations went bust. Instead of writing words herself, Sawyer\u2019s job was to rate and moderate the content created by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The job initially involved a mix of parsing through meeting notes and chats summarized by Google\u2019s Gemini, and, in some cases, reviewing short films made by the AI.<\/p>\n

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\nContracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
\nIn the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of content creation. On her first day a week later, however, her expectations went bust. Instead of writing words herself, Sawyer\u2019s job was to rate and moderate the content created by artificial intelligence.
\nThe job initially involved a mix of parsing through meeting notes and chats summarized by Google\u2019s Gemini, and, in some cases, reviewing short films made by the AI. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent In the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of …<\/p>\n

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