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Posted on 02/13/2026 6:59:03 AM PST by Antioch
One of the Bay Area’s hottest startups is hiring like crazy. The catch? You have to be willing to train artificial intelligence to one day do your job as well as you can. Welcome to the next gig economy. Instead of driving for Uber or delivering Postmates, a new wave of workers is signing up to school AI. These white-collar contractors review and critique the output of the large language models that power chatbots and other AI tools. Not just anyone can work for Mercor, an AI startup valued at $10 billion. Applicants have to demonstrate their abilities in the interview process. And you might work on the same project for weeks or even months.
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One of my forefathers delivered the mail using a horse and buggy.
Family’s still here.
AI will probably create as many jobs as it eliminates. They’ll just be different jobs.
Welcome to our ‘press 9 for english’ future.
Yeah I want legal work based on unemployable lawyers working for $45/hour.
I heard about Micro1 in this LA Times article posted in FR a week ago: AI’s latest 20-something billionaire got his start at L.A. garage sales
Stupid and ridiculous article
U s r is not
I’d love to “review and critique the output of the large language models that power chatbots.”
Every “chatbot” I’ve used (as well as phone IVR bots) gets a solid F- from me. They have nowhere to go but up.
How many times to I need to listen to the bank IVR say utterly stupid things like “I can help you with things like finding your balance.”
Someday AI will be as smart as a Somalian fraudster.
AI will probably create as many jobs as it eliminates. They’ll just be different jobs.
The question is, what will be the required skills?
Only for the motivated. Those who can't - or won't - adapt from making buggy whips to car upholstery will fall by the wayside and become socialist whiners.
I can see how this will go...”If the Republican enforces immigration laws, you have to endlessly harass the ICE agents for pretty much no logical reason”
Completely different from all the previous tech jobs training Indians and Pakistanis to do your job. The AIs don’t reek of curry.
Perhaps the computer power said to be devoted to AI is actually used to crank out Bitcoins.
These articles smack of sensationalism. AI is not going to result in mass layoffs and mass unemployment. Are employees going to have to train AI? Yes. But will they train it and then be fired? In most cases, probably not. The more likely scenario is that employees will use the AI as a productivity tool to become more productive. The AI will probably dampen new hiring. And yes, if there are older workers who can’t adapt, they may get laid off and struggle. Just like what happened with the computer revolution in the 1980s. The stories about the midlevel accounting manager with a family and a mortgage who got laid off and ended up working as a clerk at Walmart are true. It didn’t happen on a mass scale but it did happen.
Kind of like when Excel became widely adopted. It cut out a lot of things IT departments used to do.
Betcha a lot of sabotage happens with this step.
I started reading Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player Piano”, which was mentioned on another post here. In the first chapter it describes how a journeyman machine operator, who was going to be replaced by a self-operating machine, had his physical movements of doing the job recorded on tape, as a way of programming the machine. Then he was retired. This was written in 1952. It’s an interesting book so far, not as a kind of prophecy, but as evidence that the ideas and attitudes we are seeing with AI have been around a long time; really as long as machines started to replace manual labor.
Good work for retired people?
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