Recruiting Oscar-winning authors to teach Grac!

Elon Musk’s company xAI is looking to hire top writers and award-winners to train its AI chatbot, Grok. The company recently posted a job posting inviting professional novelists, journalists, and screenwriters to produce high-level texts to enhance Grock’s abilities. But what angered many was the meager salary offered against the hefty resume required; Musk expects those who write for the New York Times or who have won an Oscar to be paid between $40 and $125 an hour to train an AI tool that is supposed to replace themselves.

In xAI’s job posting, the main goal of the new job is to “evaluate, modify, and create elite-level texts” in various genres to advance Grok’s chatbot capabilities. Gerak has faced many controversies in the past year; From promoting racist conspiracy theories to praising Hitler. The Musk company hopes to increase the quality and accuracy of this artificial intelligence by injecting high-quality data produced by human experts in the medical, legal, and literary fields and prevent the repetition of past scandals.

Recruitment advertisement of Elon Musk’s company for training Graak

The conditions mentioned in the job advertisement are surprisingly difficult and only include the elite of these industries. For example, story writers must have at least two of the conditions, such as a book publishing contract with five major American publishers, selling more than 50,000 copies of a novel, or publishing more than 10 short stories in prestigious publications such as the New Yorker. Also, having big awards like Hugo or Nebiola is also one of the main criteria.

The situation is similar in the scriptwriting department. Applicants must have written at least two feature films produced by major studios (such as Warner or Netflix) or written 10 broadcast television episodes. . Nominees or winners of awards such as Oscars, Emmys or BAFTAs can also apply for this job.

Many critics and social media activists believe that asking the world’s most talented writers to teach a tool that is their future competitor, at a base salary of $40 an hour, is insulting. While writing for a publication like the New York Times or winning a Hugo Award is an achievement few achieve, offering a salary at the level of routine jobs to transfer these people’s knowledge and skills to artificial intelligence shows a commoditized view of human art and expertise.