AI Photo Contributor

About the Opportunity

We are collecting photo submissions to help improve visual AI systems. As part of this opportunity, you will submit photos of yourself up front. These photos will be used for evaluation and sampling purposes only. After reviewing your submission, we may decide to license some or all of your photos.

If your pictures are selected, we will contact you and share a separate agreement outlining the specific usage terms and compensation. Your photos will not be used in any product, dataset, or external context unless and until you sign that separate license. If your submission is not selected, we will delete all copies of your photos and they will not be used beyond the initial evaluation.

Photo Requirements

We're looking for approximately 20 photos per person (or more), with good variety across the following dimensions:

Looks (most important)

• Photos should span different time periods to show how your appearance has changed over time

• Variety in outfits, hairstyles, makeup, facial hair, glasses, and other aspects of appearance

Angles

• Different distances from the camera and focal lengths

• Different body orientations and framing (e.g., full portrait, three-quarter, close-up)

Quality

• All photos must be clear, in focus, and easy to make out your face (and figure, where the angle is appropriate)

• Photos should be recent and high quality — no blurry, low-resolution, or heavily filtered images

• You must be the only person clearly identifiable in every photo; no other individuals should be visible in the frame

• Photos must be authentic — no AI-generated, digitally altered, or composite images

What counts as a photo

• "Photo" is used broadly: we welcome any portrait of you, whether a selfie, a photo taken by someone else, or a professional shot

Eligibility and Accommodations

This opportunity is open to residents of the United States only, excluding residents of California, Illinois, Texas, and Washington. It is not open to residents of the European Union or United Kingdom.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to any legally protected characteristics and are committed to equal opportunity. We also provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.