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Outlier AI
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Outlier is a platform where experts earn freelance income training and evaluating AI by writing prompts, rubrics and rating answers.
12M visits/mo
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Mercor
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Marketplace that matches vetted human experts with AI labs to produce training data and model evaluations.
8.9M visits/mo
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Core features
- ✦Remote job postings in tech and related fields
- ✦Categorized job listings
- ✦Location-based job search
- ✦Option to post jobs for employers
- ✦Remote AI-training gig work
- ✦Tasks: prompt writing, rubrics, rating answers
- ✦Flexible hours, work from anywhere
- ✦Weekly, quality-based pay
- ✦Roles across coding, STEM and languages
- ✦Free access to paid AI models
- ✦Curated roles across many expert domains
- ✦Expert vetting and matching to AI projects
- ✦Hourly-paid contract work for specialists
- ✦APEX benchmarks and off-the-shelf datasets
- ✦Enterprise data partnerships and evaluations
- ✦Daily payouts to contributors
Use cases
- →Finding remote jobs in AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science
- →Discovering work-from-home opportunities in tech
- →Connecting employers with remote tech talent
- →Earning side income as an AI trainer
- →Contributing expertise to improve AI
- →Flexible remote work for grads and experts
- →Gaining hands-on AI and prompt experience
- →Source expert human data for AI training
- →Run domain-expert model evaluations
- →Find paid remote work as a domain specialist
- →Build custom datasets for AI labs
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