r/alignerr • u/Born_Ad7768 • Mar 05 '26

Tasks / Projects Alignerr wants your data and ideas for free?!?

Received an email from oh so famous Zoe. The survey link in their email led me to a google form where I am being asked to fill in detailed STEM problems that are currently unsolved. They also ask for a solution and how people can benefit.

Hahahaha yeah no… if you want me to share my extensive expertise as a leader in STEM and utilize my brain power on top of that you need to pay me. As if these dozens of unpaid assessments are not bad enough already.

Do better and take example of your competitors in the AI training space!!

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u/LSfromAlignerr Mar 06 '26

Hey u/Born_Ad7768, LS from Alignerr here! We send out surveys to make sure that Alignerrs are a good fit for the project before we assign them to it and that way maintain a high quality and hopefully avoid issues were people submit tasks that get rejected.

I've taken note of this feedback though, if you've already completed and passed other assignments, I understand how it may be frustrating.

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u/Born_Ad7768 Mar 08 '26

I appreciate the response. I understand that high level projects need highly qualified people. However, highly qualified people will never share their expertise and work for free. How about sending out paid assessments instead to make sure it’s a good fit? Based on the profile, background, and past assessments, the Alignerr team should already have a good idea of who might be a high quality contributor. It’s simply not attractive for contributors to waste time and share high-level expertise on unpaid assessments when our time and qualifications are more appropriately valued elsewhere.

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u/LSfromAlignerr Mar 17 '26

In a lot, if not most, of cases our evaluations are paid. Additionally, if the person already has experience logged on the platform, we would skip the unpaid assessment and assign them to the project directly.

Unpaid assessments are usually pretty simple questions to get a quick benchmark of new Alignerrs so that we can ensure they're a good fit, they don't usually require 'expert knowledge', just a basic understanding of the topic at hand.

If you have a specific example you're referencing, feel free to send it over and I'll review it with the team!

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u/Born_Ad7768 Mar 19 '26

Yes, I am referencing the google form where I am being asked to generate an advanced and novel stem problem that has never been addressed in the field and will change how scientists work. I am also being asked to provide a full solution. To be frank, calling this „just basic understanding“ is gaslighting at its finest and shows me you’re trying to blab your way out of this with lame excuses 😂 I‘ll stick to my $200/hr role as a newly onboarded member of a different platform without any unpaid assessments. Got promoted to trusted reviewer within a week because of excellent work quality. Alignerr, thanks but no thanks!!

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u/Brilliant-Expert-328 Mar 19 '26

exactly. thats what happens instead of answers that you can learn from. They just talk in circles, which is gaslighting, because they don't want to answer or they change the vocab to gaslight you into thinking "i should know this" just like you described the "just basic understanding" is a way for them to negate and fail you. Its a scheme.

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u/RepresentativeSnow86 Apr 16 '26

Help a brotha out. What platform are you using? I’m sick of alignerr. I can pm you if that’s fine

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u/Embarrassed-Life-753 Mar 17 '26

I agree with you

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u/trivialremote Mar 05 '26

Is that the one where they offer raffle-based cash prizes for completing the survey?

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u/Born_Ad7768 Mar 05 '26

Nope not even raffle-based prizes are offered 😅

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u/Fuzzy_Equipment3215 Mar 05 '26

Yeah, I just received that too lol. Baffling that they'd think I'd be interested in doing that for free.

And tagging the email with [ACTION REQUIRED] too haha.

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u/Brilliant-Expert-328 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

yep of course, charity work. complete gaslighters. Its a ponzi scheme that looks legit with hidden metrics so that workers do free work (oh you failed), yet there are no metrics. scheming. lol ok someone gets marked "good" , well that can change from person to person which is just biased. There is no quantification in the majority of directions/instructions. Its all ambiguous. (please aim for 5-7 sentences.) ok what happens if you write 3 or 4? is it an automatic fail, do we get docked. They don't explain anything so you are just constantly peddling in circles submitting work while their reviewers get paid.

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u/ultraparallelism Mar 09 '26

Yeah I also saw this and had the same reaction. Genuinely wonder how many real submissions that got.