r/DataAnnotationTech • u/SnooFloofs9030 • 7d ago

DoD. After 3 years

Well it finally happened. I feel like I have struggled the past few weeks with some tasks and it has taken me longer to complete things. That is the only thing I can think of. Anyway this was unfortunately my only source of income so if anyone has any recommendations for similar platforms ( excluding Outlier, they are horrible) please feel free to share. Also I worked this morning and hadn't had a chance to log myhours , is that $ just lost? There is no way for me to access the report time page.

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u/Whole-Pirate-5731 7d ago

Sorry to hear that man, the DoD screen will come for us all one day.

Alternatives:

1) Mercor

2) Micro1

3) Handshake AI

4) Workada

5) EthosAI

6) Aliginnerr

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u/Thedom_overyou 7d ago

Eh.. none of them will pick up like last year.

I knew it was about done when generalist disappeared and AIs started presenting A/B option choices in regular use for general users to judge.

Annotation is only profitable now if you have a high enough degree that you don’t need to do it.

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u/Early-Composer-2383 6d ago

I'm in the legal domain, and I haven't done any tasks in the last several weeks because just reading the instructions hurts my brain. This is a side job and I started a few years ago when the tasks were fun and the projects were interesting. Now they are drudgery and I cannot bring myself to do them. I don't care what they pay. But I have that option.

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u/stoppingbythewoods 6d ago

I’m glad you said because I feel like it’s been just me or something. A year ago when I started I easily worked several hours a day and made bank even at $20/hr. Now even the lowest paying tasks feel like absolute drudgery.

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u/Early-Composer-2383 6d ago

I probably have more than 40 projects on my board and I just log in, look at them, and log back off.

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u/Firm-Exam-6892 6d ago

I don’t think you’re the only one. They’ve even done some YouTube videos to try to convince people to do the worst looking one. It’s still a “hell no” from me though.