Kai Risdahl

And since those jobs have been drying up, a lot of people in the industry have been working in a new kind of gig economy.

Ruth Fowler is a screenwriter.

She wrote in Wired the other day about her side hustle as an AI trainer.

Ruth, thanks for coming on.

So as I said in the introduction a second ago, you are a screenwriter.

How did it come to pass that you found yourself working as this thing that's called an AI trainer?

Yeah, WGA, Writers Guild of America, of course.

$150 an hour, not bad.

But here's the question.

What does it mean to be an AI trainer?

What is that job?

What kinds of tasks?

What were you actually doing as you were chained to your laptop?

Yeah.

You spend a good amount of time in this piece talking about the other people who had wound up doing this kind of gig work AI trainer.

Some of them, you know, Hollywood screenwriters looking for side hustles and others just needing the money, I suppose, right?

Who else is doing this?

Speaking of extra work, you analogize this work to, you know, sort of the next generation of waiting tables, basically, for would-be, you know, Hollywood screenwriters, actors, take your pick.

Are you still doing it?

Are you still having to do this kind of work?