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“Hello, I came across your LinkedIn profile and I was impressed by your skills, which seem to correspond perfectly to the work we do at Outlier.” Here is the type of messages that many Swiss students receive. Specifications: rereading prompt and other data annotation tasks for artificial intelligence. On paper, these proposed missions have something to seduce: up to $ 45 an hour, home activity and weekly payments via a PayPal account.
Behind the large models of language (LLM) hides a vast ecosystem of shadow workers. These little hands are essential to lead to artificial intelligence systems, refining, sorting and labeing ever more massive datasets. If the vast majority of these tasks are carried out in global southern countries, for derisory remuneration, Switzerland is no exception to the phenomenon: here too, some contribute to the improvement of these software.