AI Content Editor - Fiction/Creative

Note: This posting is made on behalf of one of our clients, operating on a confidential basis. Full company details, background and information will be shared with candidates selected for interviews. Only candidates residing in the USA will be considered at this time.

Company: Confidential

Location: Remote

Type: Contract

Compensation: $25-35 per hour

About This Opportunity

We have integrated AI-assisted drafting into our editorial pipeline with excellent results - because every piece of content moves through human hands at every stage, from start to finish. We are hiring an experienced writer/editor to assist with the final quality gate in this workflow. This is a hands-on, lightweight "w-editing" role, not a proofreading pass.

The Role

You will receive AI-generated drafts that have been produced from detailed, human-crafted inputs. These drafts will have been heavily edited already, and you will serve as the final gatekeeper and make them publishable. Specifically:

- Read through AI-generated content and compare it to the original input, ensuring accuracy, structure and completeness

- Rewrite passages that feel flat, generic, repetitive or tonally inconsistent

- Smooth transitions, fix pacing issues and ensure narrative or argumentative logic holds throughout

- Maintain and enforce a consistent voice across a piece or series of pieces

- Flag structural problems or gaps that need to be addressed upstream

- Think of it as developmental editing meets rewriting (hence: w-editing), performed on machine-generated material instead of a human first draft. The skill set is the same, the source material is different.

Requirements

Must-haves:

- Demonstrable proof (through resume/cv and/or samples) of professional editing, rewriting, or developmental editing experience in (ideally) the fiction/creative space

- Demonstrated ability to rewrite and elevate rough or uneven prose while preserving intent and structure

- Demonstrated ability to spot and surgically remove/rewrite/edit common failure points in AI-generated text (repetitions, common AI phrases, overly descriptive language, etc.)

- Strong instinct for voice, tone, and consistency — you can spot when something "sounds wrong" even if you can't immediately articulate why

- Comfort working with AI-generated content without ideological friction — you see it as raw material, not a moral issue

- Ability to work at production pace; this is not a one-chapter-per-month role

- Excellent judgment about when something needs a light touch vs. a full rewrite

Absolute discretion — you understand and respect that this workflow is confidential and are comfortable signing an NDA

Strong pluses:

- Experience editing across multiple genres or content types

- Familiarity with AI writing tools (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) and an understanding of their common failure modes — e.g., repetitive phrasing, hedging, tonal drift, bland transitions

- Background in ghostwriting or work-for-hire publishing where confidentiality was standard

- Speed without sloppiness

What We're Not Looking For:

- Someone who needs to be credited or bylined for this work

- Someone who views AI-assisted content as inherently unethical and would be uncomfortable with the process

- A pure proofreader — this role requires substantive editorial judgment and rewriting ability

- Someone who cannot maintain strict confidentiality about the workflow

To apply please send the following to contact2@fo.nu with the subject line "AI-Content Editor Application" (all emails to this address with other subject lines will be discarded):

- A brief cover letter (a few paragraphs, not a novel) telling us about your editorial background and why this role interests you. Please include a snippet on your personal view of the role of AI in this sort of space.- Your resume or CV demonstrating your editorial experience (including whether it was/is in non-fiction, fiction, or both).- Samples of your editing work (before/after). If you don't have a shareable sample, describe your editing process in concrete terms.Candidates who advance will be contacted to arrange for a brief interview. Candidates who advance past the interview will be given a paid trial assignment: a section of raw AI output to edit, along with a sample of already edited content for you to base your edits upon.

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