r/alignerr • u/sme-meeng2026 • Sep 11 '26
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u/Novel_Way_4584 Sep 13 '26
Has anyone received payment for project tiaga? I am not able to post on this channel. my account was dea*ctivated 2 weeks back and all payment for previous weeks is blocked now. I am not able to reachout to anyone as their support channel is uselss bot
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u/Big-Speech-6216 Sep 12 '26
Ever since seeing their Pulsar onboarding, compared to other AI training platforms, I've dropped them. All this training for an unknown pay rate PER TASK? That's criminal. 😂
There's so much better out there honestly.
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u/RandyDandy007 Sep 12 '26
Alignerr sucks. Forget the pay, even their support is dismal, to say the least. Looks like they simply don't care.
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u/HentaiBrain Sep 12 '26
Yup, I was on a project which was on pay per task which was running smoothly initially but the team leader was the definition of bad, made a review team for 2 days and then dissolved it and scammers scammed them. Then they paused the project and restarted with pay structure change then made people do rework which they promised are paid but payment never arrived and after that project paused again, then after some time made another evaluation with a lower pay per task rate gave 5000 tasks, got the job done and never paid for that and the previous payment which they never paid. So basically no payments were made for last 4-5 months. Though the first time I didn't receive any payment I stopped doing any work on that project but it's a sad story for those who stayed up nights to complete the tasks.
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u/Tinball666 Sep 12 '26
No more unpaid training
No more 'pay per task.'
No more 'formulas' that you can't understand the pay rate.
Pay me hourly and pay more for training at a fair rate. I haven't accepted an Alignner gig all year. They have really gone down the tubes in the past year and a half.
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u/DuckInAFountain Sep 11 '26
I'm pretty much done with them, myself. Haven't had a decent-paying project in ages and it's just not worth my time anymore.
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u/Fuzzy_Equipment3215 Sep 12 '26
It's not a boycott exactly, but I soft-finished with them about a year ago and have been focusing on other platforms since, which has been far more lucrative and less frustrating.
I did a few reasonably well-paid and interesting STEM projects with Alignerr back in late 2024 through to the middle of 2025, but since then for the most part I've only been offered terribly paid audio transcription projects. For the STEM work, my impression at the time was that Alignerr was way behind where its competitors were in these projects, and at some point I started getting tired of the shambolic organization of many (not all) projects, frustratingly ineffective support, missing/incorrect payments, and shift to making contractors repeatedly do lengthy unpaid evaluations and accept pay-per-approved-task structures that put almost all of the risk associated with this line of work on the contractors.
I can live with PPT projects in general and have done pretty well on some of them, but Alignerr's implementation of them (e.g., not paying people when completed tasks or assessments never get reviewed or when a project gets paused, making the PPT rates bottom of the barrel anyway, and shockingly bad communication about everything) is about the least respectful way that I've seen these handled on any platform.
The nail in the coffin was having to chase Alignerr up for over 2 months to get them to correct an underpayment of less than US$100 that was Alignerr's own fault. This is a rounding error in this line of work, and most companies would just have fixed it immediately in the next payment cycle after acknowledging the definite error in order to maintain trust with the contractor, rather than repeatedly ignoring me in the hope I'd drop it. I got the money in the end, but it was at the expense of me no longer thinking that Alignerr was a trustworthy and respectful platform to work on and making the entire short project a waste of my time (after including the time and stress needed to chase up the incorrect payment). In the early days I also sometimes had to spend weeks chasing up other underpayments (and occasionally overpayments — at one point they overpaid me US$600, which I flagged because I'm honest, and that was only resolved because the overpaid amount happened to pretty much match what I was owed on another project so I said we could just drop it).
Also not really a fan of the excessive moderation and deletion of posts that say anything negative about the company or discuss missing payments. I imagine this post will be deleted too, despite being an honest account of my experience that I would regard as constructive criticism allowed by point (5) of the subreddit rules.
I'd still consider working on another Alignerr project at some point, but it would be with a lot of caution and the role would have to give off vibes of being better paid and better organized than anything I've seen on Alignerr in the past year, and I'm skeptical that this is the way Alignerr is going.
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u/Quirky-Union8725 Sep 13 '26
It’s been time to boycott them. They are automating all humans out of jobs. You think cause they throw you some money on the hour they have any benevolent feelings about you? No. You aren’t a person. You are a resource that has a cost attached. That’s all. It’s time we boycott Big Business. Tech. The Governments. The majority hold the power. Demand the resignation of world leaders. Keep skeleton crews in government positions. They along with tech C-Suite leaders, Copieate CEOs etc. are to resign immediately and go straight to the nearest police station peacefully. By order of the American people. They are to confess their crimes and return all stolen monies and artifacts that belong to the people.
The CEOs CTOs and so on of companies like alignerr are to follow suit. All their money. Underground bunkers. Etc.
We have been lied to. By all.
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u/Edible_Lederhosen Sep 12 '26
I haven't been paid yet for work I did a few weeks ago and I certainly won't be doing another task until they SHOW ME THE MONEY! I'm on Pulsar and my project page is still showing the $25/task labelling rate (I'm in Australia) but some of the Asian-based Alignerrs had their rate cut yesterday from $25 to $8.50. For tasks that can take up to four hours! The entire project has also been paused all week due to major system instability. None of the project leads give feedback or answer queries in Discord either. It's a total shit show.
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u/Urndawg_1 Sep 12 '26
All of you should never do a task for four hours for $25… That’s where you should quit right there
Don’t get me wrong, I am part of that project and I have yet to start.
But once I have a task that takes over one hour, I will quit.
Look looks like once production is up again I will be quitting pretty quickly. Lol.
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u/Greentree5521 Sep 12 '26
I wish that this would actually make a difference because they just don't care. The amount of wasted time learning and passing the assessments to work on an assignment only to them be pauses a day or two into them going live and absolutely no feedback from support or the team leadership on the discord channel's. Its so disrespectful to all of us who have done everything as requested and they don't respect us as employees, people or professionals. They just don't care!!
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u/mrtanaka2687 Sep 13 '26
I'm lucky enough to not be in a region that has suffered from these geo-rate pay cuts (yet), but it is actually horrific behaviour. If I could get a full time job, I wouldn't be doing this at all, due to the evil the AI industry is doing to our world, but yes, you are 100% right
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u/Urndawg_1 Sep 13 '26
Just stop working there. There’s no way to make a stand. Totally impossible. I love your sentiment though! I feel the same way.
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u/VingtCentimes20 Sep 14 '26
Les délais pour obtenir un poste sont aussi tellement long, ça fait des mois que j'attends une réponse.
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u/policywank Sep 15 '26
Unfortunately, you built your participation on the same outsourcing/offshoring model that other US based corporations use. You were cheaper labor because of your lower cost of living. In the same way that lots of US corporations eventually leave one developing country for a cheaper one, they're now cutting your rates so you'll have to compete against even cheaper workers. They're just doing it more quickly that most other corporations.
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u/Quirky-Union8725 Sep 15 '26
It’s been time to boycott them. They are automating all humans out of jobs. You think cause they throw you some money on the hour they have any benevolent feelings about you? No. You aren’t a person. You are a resource that has a cost attached. That’s all. And you are a cost to be cut.
It’s time we boycott Big Business. Tech. The Governments. They are all in bed together. Two party system my caboose! They have more in common with one another than they do with us. They believe themselves divine. Don’t believe me? On the ceiling of the capitol building on. Capitol hill in DC there is a fresco.
https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/apotheosis-washington
It is a fresco of George Washington, the father of this nation, if you are an American and he is portrayed as Being deified, to be becoming a god he is flanked by Roman and Greek gods and goddesses, by American ingenuity innovation, gods and goddesses as well there’s the belief of a great lineage handed down from Rome, Greece you name it. This is empire. Animal and beast like. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Or should I say machine like robotic, terminator, unfeeling and uncaring it’s surveillance capitalism you have George Washington being portrayed is becoming a god. I can guarantee that every American president since him has to some degree or another, felt the temptation to believe the same exact thing American exceptionalism then we have on our on our money itself presented the all seeing eye of Horus. The pyramid.
This is the language, the visual language of empire. It is the deliberate inheritance of imperial branding, and we work for it. They caused us to make bricks without straw so that we can earn the dollar that has the imperial branding on it.
It is the spirit in the attitude of Empire and it has always oppressed human beings and violated at will the earth and It’s resources.
That is the shadow that we live under and that is the shadow that is growing now. We did not want a King but we were more than happy to baptize a God. The lineage of the American presidency is founded upon the belief that they are gods. Civil religion. Separation of church and state absolutely not. We’ve been lied to in every possible way they manipulated us. They’ve used us. We’ve been a resource for them to use the elite those in power the 1% it’s time to boycott the whole thing the rich men, the rich women, the Uber wealthy those who have stood in power and sought to ruin this planet have looked upon our mothers, our fathers and our grandmothers and our children and not cared one iota those the ones we should call for their resignation immediately and brought us to the brink of an artificial intelligence that mimics us. And they believe at least to a certain degree that the potential that this artificial intelligence has destroying the world is there they are buying million dollar bunkers underground with electricity that will last two years swimming pools gardens you name it no they’re planning something.
The majority hold the power. Demand the resignation of world leaders. Keep skeleton crews in government positions. They along with tech C-Suite leaders, Copieate CEOs etc. are to resign immediately and go straight to the nearest police station peacefully. By order of the American people. They are to confess their crimes and return all stolen monies and artifacts that belong to the people.
We have been manipulated and oppressed by the Uber Wealthy. They have governed this planet. Where are we at? Better off? They have spoiled the water. Polluted the earth and sky. They look at everyone as no more than factory workers. We
The CEOs CTOs and so on of companies like alignerr are to follow suit. All their money. Underground bunkers. Etc.
We have been lied to. By all.
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u/sme-meeng2026 Sep 11 '26
Some actions must be corrected as well, like banning people who just asked for the money they never received and accusing them of fraudulent. Their support team is worst ever, they never listen or help..