Break ChatGPT, Earn $50 in Terac's AI Prompt Design Study

What the listing asks domain experts to do

Terac's own framing, from the listing: they are running a paid study on advanced AI capabilities to find people who excel at designing tasks that expose where models fall short. It feeds into a larger effort to evaluate and improve how AI handles complex, multi-step requests, and high performers in this trial get considered for ongoing paid research projects, not a one-off payout.

The listing is open to professionals, domain experts, and knowledge workers from any field who deeply understand a complex, specialized workflow, the kind of person who can recognize a high-quality output in their own area within seconds. The real filter is whether you can spot a wrong answer in your field faster than a generalist reviewer could.

What the paid hour involves

Straight from the listing, this is the sequence:

1. Translate a familiar, complex workflow from your job or personal life into a demanding prompt for ChatGPT.
2. Test that prompt in ChatGPT and identify where it fails to produce a complete file.
3. Record your screen, camera, and microphone while you think through the task out loud.
4. Refine the prompt to make it harder, then write a clear, structured rubric a stranger could use to grade any AI's attempt at the task.
5. Hand back your prompt, your failure notes, the rubric, and the file ChatGPT generated.

The "complete file" detail matters. The task is built around ChatGPT producing a deliverable, a spreadsheet, a document, a piece of code, and finding where that output breaks down. Whatever workflow you pick should end in a real file rather than a paragraph of text.

What the screening interview asked

The AI interviewer opens by asking about your background and how you use AI tools day to day. It wants specific examples, not a summary of your job title. If you already use AI tools regularly for real work, this part is easy, you are just describing what you already do.

It moves quickly and stays adaptive, following up on what you just said rather than reading down a fixed script. The whole thing runs about three minutes, closer to a quick screen than a real conversation, but a smooth one. It also asks for camera and screen share during the interview itself, not only for the paid task later, which fits: if the eventual task involves recording your screen, camera, and microphone, checking you can and will do that at the interview stage works as a filter.

The contract terms worth reading before you apply

The listing spells these out plainly, and they are worth knowing before you spend the hour:

• You are engaged as an independent contractor, fully remote, on your own schedule.
• The opportunity can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution, you are drawing on your own knowledge, not leaking anyone else's data.
• Payment is issued once your work is approved.
• Terac cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates for this opportunity.

What happens after you finish the interview

Finishing the interview does not hand you the paid task. Applying runs through three steps: connecting your profiles, ID verification, and the screening interview itself, and Terac's own note is that these steps are reused across roles, so you should not have to repeat the same interview twice for a different study.

A team reviews applicants after that and emails the people it selects, usually within a day or two. Finishing the interview only means being considered, not being invited to the paid task itself.

Know someone who fits this better than you do?

Terac runs its own referral program, with the terms shown in your Terac dashboard.

Terac's own bar for a good referral: someone who uses AI tools for work, has deep knowledge of one specific workflow from their job or personal life, has access to a laptop or desktop, and is comfortable sharing a screen recording with audio and video during the task. If you know someone like that, an accountant who lives in spreadsheets, an analyst who writes reports, a developer, this is a better fit for them than for a generalist.

Worth the three minutes?

Yes, if you already use AI tools for real work, have a workflow that ends in a real file, and do not mind being on camera and mic for an hour. The screening interview costs almost nothing, three minutes and a webcam, and the listing is upfront about pay, terms, and who cannot apply.

This covers the listing and the screening interview. The paid task itself starts after acceptance.

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