Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, March 10th.

Today on Forbes, a growing side hustle for American college grads, fixing AI's wrong answers.

In his day job, Scott O'Neill's most recent struggle was fighting a late January cold snap in Covington, Louisiana, about 40 miles north of New Orleans. A plumbing sales

associate, he said the phone hadn't stopped ringing since temperatures dropped to single digits.

He told Forbes, quote, it's been super busy, freeze, broken pipes. But by night, O'Neill faces a

different set of challenges, training advanced AI models.

He spends several hours a week rating the answers that bots like ChatGPT turn out,

working as a contractor for scale, the $14 billion AI data company.

The tasks vary. Sometimes he'll evaluate an AI response so it's factual and well-written,

and quote, doesn't sound robotic. Or he'll be given two responses and choose the better one.

If they're both bad, he'll rewrite it altogether. O'Neill, who is a degree in web development,

will typically make anywhere from $300 to $1,000 a week for his work,

depending on how many hours he puts in.

O'Neill is one of hundreds of thousands of click workers on Outlier, a platform owned by

Scale, where freelancers complete paid tasks to train generative AI models for Scales' corporate

customers, which include Google,

meta, and OpenAI. He's also part of the fastest growing segment of contributors on Outlier

over the last year. Workers in the United States, Scale told Forbes.

Scale debuted Outlier in 2023, a year after OpenAI's release of ChatGPT, touched off a global

AI frenzy. When an AI model like Google's Gemini or Meta's Lama spits out an answer to a

prompt, a diplomatic email to your boss, the solution to a multi-step physics problem, or code

for a to-do list app,

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