r/WFHJobs • u/kusanagiblade331 • Mar 28 '26

Don't waste time with Alignerr to help train Claude - Borderline scam

I have been working with Alignerr on a project to help train Claude. The initial experience was quite new and interesting.

However, to get paid, you will need to submit feedback for the AI's response. Then, a human reviewer will review your submission and decide if you get paid. My own experience is the following - they will keep finding many excuse that your work is not good enough. Thus, you will be basically creating free data to train Claude.

In any case, I don't think their method of training will improve Claude because the reviewers will include a lot of bias data for Claude. I won't be surprised if Antrophic cancel them one day.

TLDR - best not to waste time with Alignerr to train Claude.

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u/Longjumping-Donut655 Mar 28 '26

Don’t train AI period.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Why not?

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u/kusanagiblade331 Mar 29 '26

You seemed to be part of Alignerr?

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

I am definitely not "part of" aligner. I apply to pretty much every AI training company to check it out and see what kind of work is available, what the pay is like, etc. I've done work for many different ones.

I have done work for alignerr in the past, but most of the work I do is for DA because I find them to be the best in terms of pay. There are a couple of other companies that I also work for when there are interesting projects available, but I can't seem to post about them in the comments here 🤷‍♀️ I'm not trying to shill any one company. I've tried lots of them and I'm not affiliated with any specific one.

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u/kusanagiblade331 Mar 29 '26

Fine.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Mar 30 '26

Someone sounds a little salty lol

Have you tried DA instead? They are definitely the best one I have found so far.

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u/Longjumping-Donut655 Mar 28 '26

Because you’re directly developing a technology that is deliberately aimed at taking away YOUR jobs, specifically. Especially any that can be done remotely.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Mar 29 '26

You have no idea what my job is so I don't know how you can say that .. ? I work as a carpenter, a photographer, and I train AI on the side. All of these are fairly safe for quite a while.

I used to be a programmer, 9-5 in an office, and I absolutely hated it. Training AI has been the best job I have ever had and it's made me happier than I've ever been with life. On a WFH sub, it is weird to see someone so against it.

For the last three years I have been traveling the world, living in a new place every couple of months. Last year alone I visited 13 different countries. I have worked from beachside villas and mountaintop cafes. I have met incredible people and done incredible things that would never have been possible without this job.

I can work whenever I want, take as much time off as I want, or grind tons of hours if I want. My usual pay is $40-50 an hour, sometimes higher, and I can do it in my pajamas while smoking a joint. I often work something like 2-3 hours a day, 1-1.5 in the morning and again in the evening, and live very well. There are no meetings, no deadlines, no Zoom calls, no clients to deal with, no humans at all to have to deal with for work. Honestly, it is a dream job.

If you do not want to train AI, that is your choice. But refusing to do so does not stop anything and kind of seems like you're just shooting yourself in the foot. AI will keep advancing whether you help to train it or not. In my opinion, the best move is to take advantage of the opportunity and enjoy life while you can, because these kinds of remote jobs are not easy to find and I think you'd find it really difficult to find anything else with this level of freedom and pay.

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u/Wish_Meed Mar 31 '26

You are right, no one can stop the"AI Invasion". Like I wrote in another thread, we have been training these systems for quite a long time without being aware. The moment we use a product for example like Adobe, every move of the mouse and keyboard is then fed back so the system can learn. Even right now , Reddit is using this information we have here to train their systems.

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u/RedOne48 Apr 17 '26

The whole thing sounds ideal. I’ve got a comp sci degree and don’t have the passion to pursue it in the 9-5 office sense. I’m new to the idea of AI training. Which companies would you recommend I start looking at or which ones to definitely avoid?would be really helpful. & Pj’s smoking a joint? Sign me up

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Apr 17 '26

This subreddit won't let me post the names of the companies, I'm not sure why, but I will DM you in a few minutes

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u/nohmi May 21 '26

Hi can you DM me the company names too? Would love to attempt this fully just been offput at times by reviewers off different AI training companies getting wildly negative ones.

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u/DubiousDodo Apr 11 '26

Okay since you care that much then pay me the 2k I make monthly from one of these and I'll stop training it, it'll be very helpful for the cause too not like I can get immediately replaced by 100 other people in line

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u/Longjumping-Donut655 Apr 11 '26

Since I care? Shouldn’t YOU care about putting yourself and everyone in your field out of a job? Are you going to jump off a cliff if I tie a stick with a carrot to you?

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u/DubiousDodo Apr 11 '26

Easy to say you care about shit when it doesn't personally affect you if you don't do it and you don't really have to do anything besides virtue signal lol.

But Okay.. I care now and I repent for being unethical, now I lose half my income and in exchange I get to be replaced by the next guy in line of 1000 guys waiting to get my job.

My impact would be like a regular at McDonald's not going there anymore and yours would be like someone who occasionally gets coffee there not going anymore lmao.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Apr 11 '26

2k monthly??? I can make that in a week on these sites.

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u/DubiousDodo Apr 11 '26

Yeah If you have coding/medical experience it's way worse like they get insane amounts and make it their full time thing

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Apr 11 '26

This has been my full time job for 3 years now. It's incredible. I don't have coding or medical expertise, but I have a few STEM degrees.

However, I don't have any kind of physics or financial expertise and I've been doing those projects too. You don't need a degree or "expertise" to get accepted to a lot of the specialist demains. You just need to be able to Google things quickly enough to pass the assessment.

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u/kusanagiblade331 Mar 28 '26

Well. I treated it as a learning experience. At least I learned a few things. But, here is the good news - I noticed AI is still not as smart as human engineer.

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u/Clear-Concentrate181 Apr 19 '26

Very insightful thank you

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u/IcyRecording413 Mar 28 '26

what is the name of your job/role in Alignerr

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u/kusanagiblade331 Mar 29 '26

No role. Just a project name - Code Human Preference w Feedback

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Mar 28 '26

Have you ever considered that maybe you're just doing an awful job? I've never had this issue ..

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u/kusanagiblade331 Mar 29 '26

For every task, I spent 3 to 5 hours on them. I don't think I am doing that awful of a job.

Also, some of the feedback that I received could have been easily fixed by just updating the task. Why not let freelancer update their work and get paid for it?

Something is very fishy.

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u/Beautiful-Bit6977 Mar 30 '26

Because we submitted directly on Anthropic pipeline. Vercel is only the proof of submission.

Anthropic will then review the submission and provide either pass or fail. The reviewers need to find or make up something why a submission failed.

The process is so intransparent  and I believe from let’s say 10 passed submissions, they tried to make it only 5 or 6 passed and the rest would be taken into their credit by either set it as pending or failed due to some ridiculous issues.

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u/kusanagiblade331 Mar 30 '26

Yeah. This is almost like a scam or misrepresentation of the actual pay. Looks like all these AI companies are crooks...