If an AI chatbot has ever tested your patience, this job will pay you $800 to unleash your frustration.
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An AI software company just opened applications for someone’s dream job: Professional AI Bully.
“You’ll spend a full 8-hour day interacting with leading AI chatbots — and your only job is to be brutally honest about how frustrating they are,” the listing says.
The role pays $100 per hour for an eight-hour shift. The day will involve testing and critiquing the memory of popular AI chatbots. The candidate will be expected to ask chatbots to remember information, see what they forget, and query them again, all while documenting their interactions.
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“People constantly have to repeat themselves to chatbots. We wanted to turn that everyday frustration into something visible,” Memvid cofounder and CEO Mohamed Omar told Business Insider.
The company behind the job posting is an AI startup focused on solving memory issues in AI models. In 2024, Omar and his cofounder set out to build an AI agent to screen and hire healthcare staff. In the process, he said they uncovered a bigger problem.
“All the AI lives and breathes on memory. It’s the holy grail. But the AI memory solutions that were in the market in 2024 were unreliable — meaning they would lose context and start hallucinating,” Omar said.
That risk is especially serious in healthcare, where sensitive data is involved, Omar said. So the two founders built their own AI memory solution. The company now offers two products — one aimed at technical users, and one for nontechnical users.
The new job posting is an effort to promote the company and its products. Omar said the company will begin by hiring one person for the job, but may hire more individuals down the line to expand the campaign and raise awareness of the issue.
The job’s requirements
Candidates for the job don’t need any special AI skills, a computer science degree, or any kind of working experience, for that matter.
The online form asks candidates to describe their most frustrating experience with an AI chatbot and explain why they should be considered for the role.
The job posting says candidates must be over 18, have an “extensive personal history of being let down by technology,” and have enough patience to ask the same question multiple times. Comfort on camera is another quality the startup is seeking, since candidates will be recorded during the shift so the company can share the video for promotional purposes.
Omar said he doesn’t have a deadline for accepting applications, but expects to narrow down the right candidate within the next week or two.
Omar said that one recent college graduate applied and sent a follow-up email saying that they pay almost $300 per month for all their AI subscriptions. He said the person wrote a whole rant about how they’ve faced memory issues on every AI platform they’ve used.
“A lot of people that are applying for this are knowledge workers that are using these products,” Omar said.
