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AI companies have long relied on armies of data labelers, whose job it is to annotate, tag and classify text, images and videos to train AI models.
It’s not exactly a flashy occupation, with some saying they’re forced to watch privacy-invading footage. Others argue they’re being forced to dig their own graves by training models capable of doing their old jobs.
Other job opportunities in the space could prove more pleasurable. As Business Insider reports, a chatbot companion startup called Joi AI, which offers a NSFW character AI chat service, is hiring ten “mast**bation consultants,” according to a job listing the company posted on social media.
Best of all, chosen candidates will be paid $2,000 a month — not bad for cranking the hog to audio erotica.
These consultants are being asked to spend four weeks writing about their intimate experience while testing the company’s audio feature. Anyone can apply.
Unsurprisingly, Joi AI was quickly drowning in applications, with the company’s head of brand, Julie Levin, telling BI that the company had received over 100,000 applications in a matter of days.
“What are we supposed to do with 100,000 applications?” Levin said. “I should probably call them ‘winners,’ because it’s such a competition.”
It’s an unusual AI gig that will involve chosen candidates delivering weekly reports after completing “daily audio-guided sessions.”
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