Feb. 20, 2025, 2:54 p.m.The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs). In December, Carla McCanna received a message from a recruiter at the AI training data company Outlier. McCanna, a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, had never heard of the company, but the message came through Handshake, a recruiting portal hosted by the university. “The recruiter said my skills align with a writing...