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Kiswahili AI Training Expert

On Outlier, run by Scale AI

Up to $12.50/hr

Write and assess Kiswahili text that helps train AI models. It suits Kiswahili writers and translators living in Tanzania, ideally with professional experience or a humanities or writing degree.

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Pay

Up to $12.50/hr

In US dollars, for core project work. The rate varies with expertise, skills assessment results, location and project needs.

Type
Freelance
Hours
Flexible. Most experts work 5–10 hours a week, with room for up to 40.
Africa
Not in Africa
Platform
Outlier

01 · The role

What you would do

  • Read sets of AI-written Kiswahili responses and rank them
  • Write short stories in Kiswahili on set topics
  • Check whether Kiswahili text produced by an AI model is factually accurate

02 · Requirements

What they ask for

  • Fluent reading and writing in Kiswahili, and the judgment to evaluate it
  • Live in Tanzania, the location the listing gives
  • Verify your identity and phone number with Outlier and pass its skill assessment

Helpful, not required

  • Professional translation experience
  • Professional writing experience, for example as a copywriter, journalist, technical writer or editor
  • A humanities or writing-related degree, or a graduate program in creative writing, completed or under way
  • Kiswahili
  • Writing
  • Translation
  • Language evaluation

03 · Eligibility

Who can apply

Remote, for people living in Tanzania, the only location the page gives, so it is not open to people living in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa or Egypt. Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana are also missing from the countries Outlier's Flexible Working Guidelines allow work from.

Countries named in the listing: Tanzania.

Not in Africa

As far as the listing and Outlier's country rules show, this role is not open to people living in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa or Egypt. Outlier in Africa

Apply from where you live, as yourself. Using a VPN or someone else's identity to get around a country rule breaks these platforms' terms, and it is the quickest way to lose an account and any unpaid earnings.

04 · Applying

How to get in

You apply through Outlier's own process. The steps from sign-up to first paid task are on its profile.

05 · Source

About this listing

We last confirmed this opening on Oct 31, 2026. Rates and hours come from the listing unless the note beside the rate says otherwise. Where the listing names no countries, the Africa status is our reading of it and of what is known of Outlier's country rules, set out on its profile, and never marks a role more open than they show. The listing itself has the final word.

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Scale AI

Scale AI's freelance network for training and evaluating AI models.

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Kiswahili AI Training Expert

Up to $12.50/hr

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