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Make $65 an hour training AI

There’s a new side hustle that pays up to $65 an hour. You’d have no coworkers, you don’t have to leave home and you’re working in the exploding AI field.

If you like working solo and want a flexible remote job, this gig’s for you. It’s called AI training or tutoring. Companies need real people to fact-check AI responses, improve chatbot conversations and help AI recognize objects in images.

Your job? Read a question, compare AI-generated answers and pick the best one.

Want in?

Elon Musk’s company, xAI, is hiring thousands of AI tutors to train its chatbot, Grok.
dataannotation.tech has paid out over $20 million. Jobs start at $20 an hour.
Amazon Mechanical Turk pays less, but it’s generally very consistent.
CrowdGen has a network of more than 1 million remote workers.

Deep dive: OpenAI’s Deep research is ready to go for Plus, Team, Enterprise and Edu subscribers. You’ll get 10 deep research queries per month that pulled detailed info from multiple sources. Try it: Select Deep research in the Composer.

40% more

Calories burned walking backwards. “Retro” walking (paywall link) is better at improving balance, reducing back pain and sharpening cognition, too. If you try it, be careful!

Have a college student at home

Have a college student at home? Prime Student is half the cost of a regular Prime membership, and you get a six-month free trial to boot.

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Annoyed by Netflix autoplay

▶️ Annoyed by Netflix autoplay? You’re not alone. To turn off autoplay previews or the next episode, log into Netflix on a browser. Go to Account > Manage Profiles > Playback Settings > Autoplay controls. Bonus: To hide certain shows or movies, go to Manage Profiles > Viewing Restrictions. Type in what you want to hide and save.

Zoom-zoom

Zoom-zoom: On YouTube, double-click the right side of a video to skip ahead 10 seconds. If the intro’s still playing, double-click again to skip it. Another option: Hit the right arrow to jump ahead 5 seconds.

Power users like you

⚡ Power users like you: Microsoft PowerToys adds free, new features to your Windows PC. Peek gives you a quick preview of a file without opening it. If you’ve used a Mac, you can preview a file just by hitting the space bar. With Peek, select a file, press Ctrl + Space. Install PowerToys here.

Make this year the one you take care of you

Make this year the one you take care of you: Hearing aids aren’t expensive and bulky like they used to be. The tech has come such a long way. Get a free evaluation with a doctor. You’ll be glad you did.

Echowriting

Echowriting: That’s teaching AI to sound like you. Feed in a piece of writing (an email, a blog post, a text, whatever) and say, “This is my writing. I want you to analyze it, so you can sound more like me in the future.”

Cheap gas

Cheap gas? Yes, please: The free Upside app gives you cash back on gas, groceries and dining out. Download Upside and use promo code Kim to get an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas.

Smart home FYI

Smart home FYI: LED lights might be the problem if your garage door openers stop working. They emit the same frequency and can interfere with remote controls. Genie and LiftMaster sell special bulbs that don’t.

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7 credit card commandments

7 credit card commandments: Credit cards are a great way to build your credit history and improve your credit score, but they come with some pitfalls. Clark Howard has seven rules (like paying your balance in full each month) for using credit cards. Subscribe to Clark.com’s free newsletter for more must-have money tips.

Picture in picture

Picture in picture: You’re at your sister’s house and she’s bringing out the old family photos. There’s a better solution than scanning them or taking a crappy photo of them. PhotoScan by Google Photos is free and gives you a high-res digital copy without that weird glare.

Tell Instagram to stop tracking you

Tell Instagram to stop tracking you: Go to your profile and click the three-line icon > Accounts Center. Choose Ad Preferences > Manage info > Activity information from ad partners. Tap Review Settings, then No, don’t make my ads more relevant. Press Confirm. Voila.

Welcome

🏠 Welcome: Simplisafe, Schlage, August, Yale and others let you create a guest code for visitors instead of giving away the main code to your smart lock. Look for a guest icon or option in your lock’s app.

"Find the weaknesses in your last response"

“Find the weaknesses in your last response”: Try that next time you’re feeling iffy about an AI chatbot’s response. It’ll reanalyze and look for any major holes or biases. Finish up with, “Try again, but this time …” based on whatever it told you.

See what's got the keys to the castle

See what’s got the keys to the castle: On Android, go to Settings > Security & privacy. Tap Privacy controls to see if any apps have full device access. Steps and names you see may vary slightly depending on your phone.

Find anything faster

Find anything faster: Press Cmd + Space on Mac or Win + S on Windows to search files, apps and the web without clicking through folders.

All the better to see you with

👀 All the better to see you with: Your iPhone uses the camera to detect if you’re looking at it. That’s why your notifications are quieter, your phone auto-unlocks and your brightness doesn’t dim when you’re looking at the screen. Don’t like it? Go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Turn off Attention Aware Features.

Be the smart one at work

Be the smart one at work: Download NetSuite’s free knowledge e-book, “The CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning.” No matter what you do, you should know more about AI. It’s not going anywhere.