{"id":605857,"date":"2026-04-25T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:55:15","slug":"elon-musk-is-hiring-emmy-nominees-guggenheim-fellows-to-feed-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605857\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is hiring Emmy nominees, Guggenheim fellows to feed Grok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s AI company wants to pay award-winning writers to train its chatbot on how to do their jobs. On Wednesday, xAI, the company behind Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sf-culture\/article\/elon-musk-fake-wikipedia-grokipedia-21131512.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grok chatbot<\/a>\u00a0posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/jobs\/view\/4405270081\/?trk=eml-email_job_alert_digest_01-primary_job_list-0-jobcard_body_0_jobid_4405270081_ssid_15104025324_fmid_1xg4o5~mobswqsy~nb&amp;refId=sBrp0YmizVa19hoH9fSjIQ%3D%3D&amp;trackingId=6Mi3%2B8%2BooWOBXgcRYFzwSw%3D%3D\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">job listing<\/a> calling for writers to produce \u201celite-level writing\u201d in a variety of fields, with the goal of refining Grok\u2019s writing capabilities. The bar for those writers is rather high, from Emmy-nominated screenwriters and Guggenheim fellows to New York Times journalists.<\/p>\n<p>As AI threatens white-collar jobs, tech companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/tech\/article\/bay-area-tech-controversial-ceos-may-join-forces-20372507.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scale AI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rashishrivastava\/2026\/04\/15\/mercors-23-year-old-billionaire-founders-grapple-with-employee-fraud-and-north-korean-infiltration\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercor<\/a> are hiring well-educated professionals, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/cs\/features\/877388\/white-collar-workers-training-ai-mercor\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ex-lawyers to history Ph.D.s<\/a>, to teach AI models how to replicate their work, often with intermittent gigs and variable pay.<\/p>\n<p>xAI\u2019s job listing appears to follow this trend, but it\u2019s exemplary in the stringency of its requirements. For fiction writing, for instance, writers must meet at least two criteria from a list. These include novel sales of more than 50,000 copies; starred reviews in\u00a0Kirkus or journals; short stories published in New Yorker-tier magazines; and recognition from Hugo or Nebula awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poets are required to hold advanced degrees and boast a \u201chistory of awards, fellowships, or residencies from recognized organizations.\u201d Journalists must have several clips in \u201cmajor outlets (e.g., NYT, BBC), with awards, citations, or engagement metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Day-to-day responsibilities for the writers include providing feedback on AI-generated writing, producing \u201chigh-quality curated data\u201d \u2014 this refers to writing, presumably \u2014 to feed Grok, and working with engineers to train the\u00a0chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for their work, writers are compensated at an hourly rate of $45 to $125, depending on experience. Some positions are full time; others are contract and part-time gigs. Curiously, the company notes that it is not able to hire in the states of Illinois and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>SFGATE reached out to xAI for comment on the job listing but did not receive a response before the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI company wants to pay award-winning writers to train its chatbot on how to do their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,244040,245396,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-605857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-sfgculture","12":"tag-sfgtech","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}