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Human-in-the-Loop

Any AI system design where a human reviews, corrects, or approves the model's output as a routine part of the process.

"Human-in-the-loop" describes the broader category most AI-training and evaluation gig work falls under: the model doesn't run fully autonomously, a person checks its work at some stage. Job listings sometimes use this exact phrase to describe ongoing review or quality-control roles, as opposed to one-off data-labeling batches.

Example

An AI drafts a first-pass summary of a legal document, and a paralegal reviews and edits it before it's sent to the client - the paralegal is the human in the loop.

Common questions

Often yes - it tends to describe ongoing review processes rather than a fixed batch of labeling, though this varies by platform and client.

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