{"id":453398,"date":"2026-04-25T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/453398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:29:13","slug":"elon-musk-is-hiring-emmy-nominees-guggenheim-fellows-to-feed-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/453398\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is hiring Emmy nominees, Guggenheim fellows to feed Grok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s AI company wants to pay award-winning writers to train its chatbot on how to do their jobs. On Wednesday, xAI, the company behind Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot<\/a>\u00a0posted a job listing<\/a> calling for writers to produce \u201celite-level writing\u201d in a variety of fields, with the goal of refining Grok\u2019s writing capabilities. The bar for those writers is rather high, from Emmy-nominated screenwriters and Guggenheim fellows to New York Times journalists.<\/p>\n

As AI threatens white-collar jobs, tech companies like Scale AI<\/a> and Mercor<\/a> are hiring well-educated professionals, from ex-lawyers to history Ph.D.s<\/a>, to teach AI models how to replicate their work, often with intermittent gigs and variable pay.<\/p>\n

xAI\u2019s job listing appears to follow this trend, but it\u2019s exemplary in the stringency of its requirements. For fiction writing, for instance, writers must meet at least two criteria from a list. These include novel sales of more than 50,000 copies; starred reviews in\u00a0Kirkus or journals; short stories published in New Yorker-tier magazines; and recognition from Hugo or Nebula awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poets are required to hold advanced degrees and boast a \u201chistory of awards, fellowships, or residencies from recognized organizations.\u201d Journalists must have several clips in \u201cmajor outlets (e.g., NYT, BBC), with awards, citations, or engagement metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Day-to-day responsibilities for the writers include providing feedback on AI-generated writing, producing \u201chigh-quality curated data\u201d \u2014 this refers to writing, presumably \u2014 to feed Grok, and working with engineers to train the\u00a0chatbot.<\/p>\n

In exchange for their work, writers are compensated at an hourly rate of $45 to $125, depending on experience. Some positions are full time; others are contract and part-time gigs. Curiously, the company notes that it is not able to hire in the states of Illinois and Wyoming.<\/p>\n

SFGATE reached out to xAI for comment on the job listing but did not receive a response before the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI company wants to pay award-winning writers to train its chatbot on how to do their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,182656,186269,82],"class_list":["post-453398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sfgculture","tag-sfgtech","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116466061506226898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}