内容来源：https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/893931/ai-companies-handshake-improv-actors-training-data

内容总结：

【AI企业招募即兴演员训练情感模型，时薪高达74美元引行业热议】

近日，一家为OpenAI等顶尖人工智能实验室提供训练数据的公司Handshake AI，发布了一则特殊的招聘启事：以平均每小时74美元的报酬，招募具有即兴表演、戏剧或喜剧背景的专业人士，通过视频互动形式参与“无剧本即兴场景演绎”，帮助训练某头部AI公司的大型语言模型。

招聘要求明确强调，应征者需具备“真实且人性化的情绪识别、表达与转换能力”，能够通过即兴互动“测试顶级大语言模型的理解边界”，教会AI识别与模仿人类语调和情感。职位描述称，任务“轻松适配试镜、课程或排练日程”，强调互动需“自然、人性化且充满趣味”。

随着AI公司全力开发具备语音交互能力的多模态模型，对高质量、人性化训练数据的需求急剧上升。Handshake等数据服务商正广泛招募各行业专业人士——从化学家、律师到编剧、演员，以填补AI模型在“简单任务”上的能力缺陷。去年夏季，Handshake的训练数据需求增长了两倍，公司年度营收规模已突破1.5亿美元。

然而，这份高薪兼职在即兴表演社区引发了激烈讨论。Reddit论坛上有演员直言此举“充满反乌托邦色彩”，担心自己正在“训练取代人类创作的AI工具”。部分用户讽刺道：“AI终于要来抢我们利润丰厚的即兴喜剧工作了。”亦有人提议通过“ sabotaging the inputs”进行抵制。与此同时，也有从业者乐观预测，AI的介入或将推动现场喜剧的复兴——“观众会渴望粗糙、真实、面对面、非电脑生成的笑声。”

尽管Handshake未透露数据具体用途，但行业分析指出，此类招募与AI语音交互功能的快速发展密切相关。2024年以来，OpenAI为ChatGPT推出多声音高级语音模式，xAI的Grok、Anthropic的Claude也相继上线语音功能，对“人性化”情感表达的数据需求已成为行业竞争的新焦点。

值得注意的是，这类兼职的实际薪酬可能随任务供需波动，且工作机会并不稳定。有报道指出，参与者签约后时薪常迅速下降，所谓“灵活安排”实则为争夺有限任务的竞争。在技术狂奔的背后，专业群体对自身职业前景的忧虑，正与AI进化的步伐形成微妙张力。

中文翻译：

若你拥有敏锐的创作直觉、能真挚演绎情感，且能在场景中始终贴合角色特质，眼下正有一份职位在寻觅你这样的人才。

人工智能企业正试图汲取即兴表演者的技能，用以训练AI理解人类情感。该职位要求"能够以真实自然的方式识别、表达并转换情绪"。

但特别之处在于：你并非在剧院、影棚或地下表演空间工作。根据数据训练公司Handshake发布的公开职位描述，你将运用才华"为某顶尖AI公司"训练人工智能模型。该公司为OpenAI等实验室提供训练数据。

Handshake AI是同类企业中少数几家正竭力为AI实验室提供日益细分或专业化训练数据的公司之一，以满足模型需求。AI模型常被形容为"锯齿状"——意味着它们擅长处理某些异常复杂的任务，却在简单任务上频频失误。AI公司正试图通过专业数据标注来填补模型的知识缺口，Handshake、Mercor、Scale AI等公司已相应调整策略，广泛招募各行业专业人士。

据《边缘》杂志去年12月报道，Handshake对训练数据的需求在去年夏季激增三倍，公司11月的年度营收率突破1.5亿美元，正全力应对需求增长。Handshake及其竞争对手宣称已建立数万（或更多）白领行业专业人士网络，涵盖化学家、医生、律师、编剧等众多领域。许多从业者担忧，他们训练AI模型的行为可能加速自身职业的消亡进程。

如今，顶尖AI实验室已将目光投向短剧演员、即兴表演者等群体。

招聘描述写道："Handshake AI诚邀演员、即兴表演者及艺人参与付费协作即兴项目，与领先的AI公司合作"，承诺参与者将"通过视频与其他表演者配对，根据轻松提示或情境共同探索"。

该职位招聘拥有表演、即兴、短剧或任何戏剧工作背景的人士，并多次强调寻找能"通过教导模型识别或复制人类语气情感，从而测试顶级大语言模型理解边界"的人才。例如"情感感知力"被列为必备条件，具体要求是"能够以真实自然的方式识别、表达并转换情绪"。招聘还要求"呈现扎实自然、富有人性且充满趣味的互动体验"。

Handshake拒绝置评，招聘信息亦未说明训练数据的具体用途。

近年来，AI公司全面投入"多模态"模型开发，这类模型不仅能生成图像视频，还能通过语音交互与用户对话，并具备逼真的语调变化。自OpenAI首次测试ChatGPT语音模式后，该公司于2024年进一步强化该功能，推出配备多种音色选择的进阶版本。埃隆·马斯克的xAI在Grok中内置语音聊天功能。Anthropic的Claude自去年五月起也提供了语音测试功能。

Handshake的招聘信息补充说明，培训环节"无脚本且开放式"，参与者将"即兴演绎场景、探索角色、实时自然反应，拥有充分创作自由来塑造每次互动"。该职位承诺提供"易于协调试镜、课程或排练时间"的弹性兼职工作，时薪平均74美元。但据《边缘》杂志近期报道，这类项目在参与者签约后薪酬常迅速缩水，且当工作者需随时竞争数量有限、可能瞬时而逝的新任务时，所谓的弹性工时制实则缺乏灵活性。

Reddit平台r/improv社区的成员对此展开了深入讨论，有人称之为"反乌托邦"。一位用户写道："这显然是想让人工训练AI模型生成视频。"另一人表示："我认为他们是在教AI进行人类对话而非即兴表演。我打算故意输入错误信息。"还有人调侃道："现在AI连我们利润丰厚的即兴喜剧饭碗也要抢了。"

另有用户写道："我预测现场喜剧将迎来复兴，因为人们已厌倦在线服务，渴望那些粗粝真实、面对面的人文娱乐。这或许能成为即兴团队的绝佳宣传点：来看真人演绎、未经修饰、令人开怀的喜剧——绝非电脑制造。"

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英文来源：

If you’ve got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character’s voice throughout a scene, there’s a job listing calling for your experience.
AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion
The job requires the “ability to recognize, express, and shift between emotions in a way that feels authentic and human.”
AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion
The job requires the “ability to recognize, express, and shift between emotions in a way that feels authentic and human.”
The catch: You won’t be performing in a theater, a film studio, or an underground performance space. You’d be using your talents to train an AI model for “one of the leading AI companies,” according to the open role posted by Handshake, a company that provides training data to OpenAI and other labs.
Handshake AI is one of a handful of companies of its kind, scrambling to provide more and more niche or specific training data to AI labs in order to feed the models. AI models are often described as “jagged,” meaning they’re typically great at some surprisingly complex tasks but fail deeply at some simple ones. AI companies are trying to fix the gaps in their models’ knowledge with specialized data labeling, and companies like Handshake, Mercor, and Scale AI have adjusted accordingly, hiring professionals in a wide range of industries.
Handshake’s demand for training data tripled last summer, as The Verge reported in December, and the company surpassed a $150 million run rate in November, scrambling to keep up with demand. Handshake and its competitors have touted their networks of tens of thousands (or more) professionals in white-collar industries, from chemists and doctors to lawyers and screenwriters. Many of these professionals worry they’re training AI models in a way that will make their careers obsolete even quicker than may have happened otherwise.
And now the leading AI labs have come for sketch comics, improv actors, and more.
“Handshake AI is inviting actors, improvisers, and performers to join a paid, collaborative improv project to work with one of the leading AI companies,” the job description says, promising participants will be “matched with other performers over video and given a light prompt or scenario to explore together.”
The job listing calls for people with a background in acting, improv, sketch, or theater work of any kind, and it takes pains to imply — multiple times — that it’s looking for people who can essentially “test the limits of the world’s top LLMs’ understanding” by teaching the models how to recognize or replicate human tone and emotions. “Emotional awareness” is one of the requirements, for instance, specifically the “ability to recognize, express, and shift between emotions in a way that feels authentic and human.” The job listing also called for “interactions that feel grounded, human, and fun to play.”
Handshake declined to comment, and the listing does not specify what the training data will be used for.
In recent years, AI companies have leaned fully into “multimodal” models that can not only generate images and video, but also speak with users via voice interactions, complete with realistic inflections. After OpenAI first tested out ChatGPT’s voice mode, the company leaned further into the feature in 2024, when it debuted an Advanced version with a suite of different voices to choose from. Elon Musk’s xAI offers voice chat within Grok. And Anthropic’s Claude has offered a voice feature, at least in beta, since last May.
The Handshake job listing goes on to say that sessions are “unscripted and open-ended,” adding that participants will “improvise scenes, explore characters, and respond naturally in the moment, with plenty of creative freedom to shape how each interaction unfolds.” The role also promises part-time, flexible tasks that are “easy to fit alongside auditions, classes, or rehearsals,” with an average pay of $74 per hour. But as The Verge recently reported, these projects’ starting pay often dwindles quickly once a participant signs up, and the flexible nature of the schedule doesn’t seem so flexible when workers are competing for a limited number of new tasks that can become available, or go away, at any moment.
Members of the r/improv community on Reddit have discussed the Handshake AI job listing at length, with some calling it “dystopian.” One user wrote, “It’s clearly just an attempt to get people to train AI models to create AI generated videos.” A second wrote, “I think they are trying to teach it human conversation not how to be an improviser. My plan was to sabotage the inputs.” Another joked, “Now AI is coming for our lucrative improv comedy jobs.”
Another user wrote, “I predict a resurgence of live comedy from people being sick of online services and wanting some rough around the edges, real, face-to-face entertainment. I think that could be a great marketing angle for improv teams: come see real, unpolished, laugh out loud comedy, NOT made by a computer.”
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