What AI pays the people who train it
The article outlines the methodology for tracking the hourly wages paid to human data annotators who train AI systems. It emphasizes that all data points are manually transcribed from public sources to ensure accuracy and transparency. The site explicitly states that its figures represent advertised rates only and are not financial advice.
- ▪All data values on the site are transcribed by hand from listed sources rather than generated by AI models.
- ▪The reported figures represent advertised hourly rates in USD for human data annotation work.
- ▪The content is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.
- ▪Any proven errors in the data are corrected publicly to maintain integrity.
- ▪Plotting and code were drafted with AI assistance but revised to strictly match the source data.
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| Original publisher | Dpdns |
| Canonical URL | https://blastradius.dpdns.org/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:19:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T18:34:31.210Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T18:34:31.210Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | K8GP68MV55lK · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Values transcribed by hand from the sources listed on the method page. Plotting and page code drafted with an AI assistant and revised until it drew exactly what the sources say. No figure on this site came out of a model. Proven errors are corrected in public. Method · Data · USD per hour · advertised rates only · not advice
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Dpdns.
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