Reddit debate: should expert corrections to AI outputs count as paid work?
gareth789 · reddit · 2026-09-07
An AI practitioner sparked a Reddit debate on whether expert user corrections deserve compensation. A thumbs-down and a detailed domain-expert fix are very different contributions — and when companies train future models on them, they may be capturing years of hard-won expertise for free.
Paying per message would invite junk submissions, but treating everything as ordinary feedback seems equally off. The author, who works on an AI project researching views on training data, asks: where is the line between using a product and doing useful work for the company behind it?
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