AI Trainer - Advanced Mandarin Fluency

Prolific; New York (NY); Remote; USD 15,154,000 - 24,797,000; Full time

Job summary

Prolific is seeking fluent Mandarin speakers to help train AI through real conversations on live video calls. You can choose your schedule with no fixed hours and complete a short language skills assessment before joining.

Participants are paid per task, with potential earnings up to $18 per hour. You will contribute to data collection that helps AI understand natural speech and cultural nuances, all from a remote setup.

Qualifications

• Fluency in Mandarin: you must be a fully fluent Mandarin speaker.
• Communication: fluent English for instructions and reporting.
• A natural conversationalist: comfortable chatting easily and holding a flowing conversation over video call with someone new.
• Technical setup: a quiet environment and good-quality headphones/microphone, essential for clear audio and accurate data collection.
• Soft skills: friendly, easygoing, and comfortable talking with new people; backgrounds in teaching, interpreting, customer service, or linguistics are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Video Conversations: Have live, natural conversations in Mandarin with other participants over video call.
• Natural Dialogue: Discuss everyday topics and let the conversation flow as it would with anyone else - no scripts, no performance.
• Data Contribution: Your conversations are recorded and used to help AI models learn natural speech patterns, tone, and cultural nuance.

Skills

Fluent Mandarin

Fluent English

Natural conversationalist

Video call chatting

Quiet setup

Job description

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space - we are building the biggest pool of quality human data in the world.

Over 35,000 AI developers, researchers, and organizations use Prolific to gather data from paid study participants with a wide variety of experiences, knowledge, and skills.

The Opportunity

We are looking for fluent Mandarin speakers to help train the next generation of AI models - through real conversation. You'll join live video calls with other Mandarin speaking participants, chatting naturally about everyday topics while your conversation is used to help AI models better understand how people actually speak.

This is a genuinely interesting way to shape how AI understands human conversation, one call at a time - your natural way of speaking directly helps these models learn to communicate more like a real person.

This is a task based AI Training job that allows participants to choose their schedule and how much they work - there's no fixed schedule and no minimum hours requirement. Once you have joined the talent pool, you will be asked to complete a short assessment on your language skills. Passing this assessment also opens the door to similar paid projects in future. Researchers looking for these skills tend to pay up to $18/ hour.

Tasks

• Video Conversations: Have live, natural conversations in Mandarin with other participants over video call.
• Natural Dialogue: Discuss everyday topics and let the conversation flow as it would with anyone else - no scripts, no performance.
• Data Contribution: Your conversations are recorded and used to help AI models learn natural speech patterns, tone, and cultural nuance.

Tasks are posted individually - you'll see task details, time estimate and pay before deciding whether to take one on.

What You’ll Bring

• Fluency in Mandarin: you must be a fully fluent Mandarin speaker.
• Communication: fluent English for instructions and reporting.
• A natural conversationalist: comfortable chatting easily and holding a flowing conversation over video call with someone new.
• Technical Setup: a quiet environment and good-quality headphones/microphone, essential for clear audio and accurate data collection.
• Soft Skills: friendly, easygoing, and comfortable talking with new people; backgrounds in teaching, interpreting, customer service, or linguistics are a plus.

Why Prolific is a great platform to join as a Participant

Joining our platform as a Prolific participant will give you the chance to influence the AI models of the future using your language expertise. Once you pass our assessment, you can join Prolific in just 15 minutes, and start enjoying competitive pay rates, flexible hours, and the ability to work from home.

We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioural data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviours into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation - one that reflects the breadth and the best of humanity.

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