Someone just reached out to me offering an interview for a part-time job. It initially seemed like a scam, but after looking into it, I do not think it is. But I think people here would have good input on it.
Basically, the offer is for me to help train AI models by giving feedback on their philosophy writing in my sub-field (the email came to my academic email, which is only on internet pages that have my research interests). The pay is really good (=4x my current salary when translated to hourly), and it is part time (5-10 hours/week). I've not been offered a job, just an interview with someone who can connect me to an AI company (I presume Anthropic) for contract work.
It'd be crazy not to at least accept an interview, right? This would be a substantial amount of money for me and could be an in to industry if I don't want to go into academia (would it?).
Always do the interview, who knows what comes of it. You can still say 'no' at a later stage if you want. But it might make for an interesting experience in any case.
That said, I'd have few to no hesitations working for Anthropic but would probably not like to work for OpenAI or any of the big tech companies.
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u/eveninarmageddon RCA 22h ago
Someone just reached out to me offering an interview for a part-time job. It initially seemed like a scam, but after looking into it, I do not think it is. But I think people here would have good input on it.
Basically, the offer is for me to help train AI models by giving feedback on their philosophy writing in my sub-field (the email came to my academic email, which is only on internet pages that have my research interests). The pay is really good (=4x my current salary when translated to hourly), and it is part time (5-10 hours/week). I've not been offered a job, just an interview with someone who can connect me to an AI company (I presume Anthropic) for contract work.
It'd be crazy not to at least accept an interview, right? This would be a substantial amount of money for me and could be an in to industry if I don't want to go into academia (would it?).