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Lora Kelley

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writer! formerly @theatlantic @nytimes. loves oats!
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AI Transforming the Job Market Landscape

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By Lora Kelley
| GV Wire Verified
Every day, Mercor, a startup that sells training data to artificial intelligence companies, pays 30,000 contractors more than $4 million to help make their jobs, and those of their colleagues, obsolete. It’s gig work, but for professionals with rarefied skills. One recent Mercor posting offered $225 an hour for a voice actor able to maintain a customer service persona in fluent Hebrew. Another sought a Ph.D. physicist with a specialization in general relativity, astrophysics or cosmology.
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The Work of Helping AI Destroy Work

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By Lora Kelley
| Breaking One
Every day, Mercor, a startup that sells training data to artificial intelligence companies, pays 30,000 contractors more than $4 million to help make their jobs, and those of their colleagues, obsolete. It's gig work, but for professionals with rarefied skills. One recent Mercor posting offered $225 an hour for a voice actor able to maintain a customer service persona in fluent Hebrew. Another sought a Ph.D. physicist with a specialization in general relativity, astrophysics or cosmology.
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The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work

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By Lora Kelley
| The New York Times Verified
Every day, Mercor, a start-up that sells training data to artificial intelligence companies, pays 30,000 contractors more than $4 million to help make their jobs, and those of their colleagues, obsolete. It’s gig work, but for professionals with rarefied skills. One recent Mercor posting offered $225 an hour for a voice actor able to maintain a customer service persona in fluent Hebrew. Another sought a Ph.D. physicist with a specialization in general relativity, astrophysics or cosmology.
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