Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.

Silicon Valley training data giants Scale AI and Appen are hiring poets and writers with humanities backgrounds, including in Hindi and Japanese. Hires are asked to write original short stories to feed AI models, as part of a drive to boost the literary quality of generative writing tools.

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Like most data assembled by scraping the internet, many of these databases are largely dominated by the English language. Scale AI and Appen’s clients are paying a clear premium for creative writers to help fill this literary language gap. In Japanese, for example, Scale AI only offers $13.98 per hour for a standard data worker. But for an expert Japanese-language poet, book editor, or creative writer, the company has rates as high as $50 per hour. [But it] pays a mere fraction of $50 per hour for standard data workers in underrepresented languages. Telugu-speaking contractors, for example, can only earn $1.43 per hour.

https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-developers-fiction-poetry-scale-ai-appen/