"Tekkılıç and his friend were recording conversations in Turkish about daily life to help train Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok. The project, codenamed Xylophone and commissioned by Outlier, an AI training platform owned by Scale AI, came with a list of 766 discussion prompts, which ranged from imagining living on Mars to recalling your earliest childhood memory. "There were a lot of surreal and absurd things," he recalls. "'If you were a pizza topping, what would you be?' Stuff like that.""
"It was a job Tekkılıç had fallen into and come to love. Late last year, when depression and insomnia had stalled his art career, his older sister sent him a job posting she thought would be a perfect fit for the tech enthusiast and would help him pay for his rent and iced Americano obsession. On his best weeks, he earned about $1,500, which went a long way in Turkey."
Serhan Tekkılıç recorded intimate Turkish conversations to help train Elon Musk's chatbot Grok using a set of 766 prompts that ranged from imagining life on Mars to earliest childhood memories. The project, codenamed Xylophone and commissioned by Outlier/Scale AI, included surreal and absurd prompts designed to elicit natural speech. He took the remote job during a period of depression and insomnia, earning up to about $1,500 on good weeks and gaining flexibility and income. Data labelers read chatbot answers and flag responses for helpfulness, accuracy, concision, naturalness, and offensiveness. Labelers shape how generative AI communicates with millions of users.
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