AI training is booming \u2014 and LinkedIn wants a piece of the pie.<\/p>\n
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The careers networking site is in the early stages of launching an “AI labor marketplace” where people can make up to $150 an hour training AI chatbots to get better at everything from coding to nursing to finance, LinkedIn confirmed to Business Insider.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, said AI training is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US right now and that it’s doing early testing.<\/p>\n
AI trainers are humans who help improve chatbots by rating their answers and testing their limits. It’s a new type of gig work spurred by the AI boom\u00a0and has led to the creation of\u00a0several rapidly-growing AI training startups<\/a>\u00a0that serve clients like Anthropic<\/a>.<\/p>\n LinkedIn has over a dozen public listings asking for AI trainers.<\/p>\n Someone with expertise in Excel and finance can make up to $100 an hour, while a nurse can make similar rates. The highest-paid position, for a senior software engineer AI trainer, pays up to $150 an hour. Other roles include a Germanic and Nordic Linguists trainer, which\u00a0pays up\u00a0to $100, and someone who “red teams” \u2014 or tests \u2014 AI systems for\u00a0$40-$50\u00a0an hour.<\/p>\n LinkedIn has also rolled out a feature that lets people receive notifications whenever an AI training opportunity pops up.<\/p>\n The move puts LinkedIn in direct competition with a host of fast-growing AI training startups that match frontier AI labs like OpenAI<\/a> with human talent to improve their models.<\/p>\n Mercor quintupled its valuation in less than a year to $10 billion. Another AI training startup, Surge AI, which owns the human-expert marketplace Data Annotation, is\u00a0valued at $24 billion, Forbes reported.<\/p>\n The sector’s breakneck growth \u2014 and vast armies of contributors \u2014 have also contributed to serious cybersecurity issues.<\/p>\n Scale AI<\/a>, for example, left confidential contractor and client information wide open across hundreds of Google Docs last year<\/a>, locking them down after Business Insider revealed the practice. Mercor was recently hit<\/a> by a serious data breach that compromised its contractors’ data and led to five class-action lawsuits in a single week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI training is booming \u2014 and LinkedIn wants a piece of the pie. Loading audio narration… The careers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,36207,196913,363,364,2038,52369,196914,196915,33351,196916,33262,16420,3446,15610,111,139,69,620,384,145,196917],"class_list":{"0":"post-377991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-chatbot","10":"tag-ai-trainer","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-business-insider","14":"tag-client","15":"tag-confidential-contractor","16":"tag-direct-competition","17":"tag-excel","18":"tag-frontier-ai-lab","19":"tag-hour","20":"tag-human","21":"tag-linkedin","22":"tag-mercor","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-openai","27":"tag-people","28":"tag-technology","29":"tag-vast-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}