AI Companion Startup Joi AI Hires "Masturbation Consultants" at $2,000 Per Month to Test Sex Toy
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Summary
AI companion startup Joi AI is hiring ten "masturbation consultants" who will be paid $2,000 per month to test and improve the company's AI-powered sex toy. The role involves using the device and providing feedback to enhance the AI's performance. The article discusses this unusual job posting in the context of the broader AI data labeling industry, where workers often perform tedious and sometimes disturbing tasks to train AI models.
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· 3 pulledAI 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.
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