Companies are hiring creative writers to train AI models

Review: Companies are hiring creative writers to train AI models

If you’re a creative writer, the rise of AI may actually present a work opportunity rather than a threat to your profession. Many companies are now hiring creative writers to assist in training their AI models and improving their writing abilities.

While AI-authored books have become more prevalent, it’s important to note that the quality of the writing may not always be the best. Although AI models like GPT-4 can produce decent results, there are concerns regarding the use of copyrighted material.

To enhance an AI model’s writing ability while avoiding legal issues, the human touch is still essential. AI model training companies such as Appen and Scale AI are actively seeking creative writers, including poets, novelists, and playwrights, to create datasets for training AI models.

While the specifics of the end clients remain undisclosed, these companies boast clients such as Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft.

The hired writers are responsible for generating short stories or poetry to serve as training data for the models. Scale AI is particularly interested in English, Hindi, and Japanese writers, while other platforms like Remotasks are even seeking writers for underserved languages like Xhosa or Igbo.

“In this case, creative writers have a unique expertise that enables us to develop high-quality training data for creative AI generation like poetry, song lyrics, and narrative writing,” stated an Appen spokesperson in a statement to Rest of World.

Although there are already extensive collections of open-source literary databases like Project Gutenberg, training language models to be truly creative remains a challenge. This is why specific and fine-tuned creative writing data is in high demand.

Furthermore, the scarcity of published material in underserved languages presents an additional hurdle when it comes to training AI to write in those languages.

For those with a master’s or Ph.D. degree, some of these jobs offer competitive rates of up to $50 per hour. However, this may not be sufficient for creative writers who aspire to make a sustainable living from their craft in the long run.

While AI models continue to improve and are trained on high-quality data, their creative writing abilities are expected to enhance as well. However, it is unlikely that AI will ever reach the level of emotional depth, humor, and artistic prose demonstrated by renowned authors like Hemingway, Wodehouse, or Bradbury.

Nonetheless, we can anticipate an improvement in the quality of AI-authored books that populate online platforms like Amazon.

But is this development necessarily a positive one?

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