Make $65 an hour training AI

February 26, 2025

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.

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