A College Student Thought He'd Struck Gold Training AI. Then He Says He Got Burned
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A college student named Joel Thomas thought he was very lucky when the Handshake AI platform invited him to study neuronets at a rate of $50 an hour. He expected to earn a full year's study for a couple of months. Instead, the company said it paid him about $11,000 for hundreds of hours of work -- out of the $19,000 promised on the screen, he only got $8,000, and his account was finally blocked.
(This headline is mean as a pun. I have written this by my own, no LLMs involved, as will become obvious within a few sentences, I hope....
A college student thought he'd struck gold training AI. Then he says he got burned
iStock; Tyler Le/BI Joel Thomas was hooked the moment he saw the pay rate. Handshake AI, the startup behind a career-services app that his university recommended, invited him to apply in August for AI training work paying $50 an hour or more. That would be enough, he figured, to cover his college…
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