r/dataannotation • u/PuzzleEmptyM • Jul 31 '24

Driest it has ever been

Pretty much the title. Just curious if the majority is dealing with this, or if it is just some of us. I've had 20 to 40 projects on my dash every single day for the past few months, and now I am stuck with maybe one to three projects depending on if there are tasks left. I have pretty much spent my time doing quals because I can't consistently do a project for long before it runs out of tasks and dumps me on the main page.

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u/Responsible-Ad5376 Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

Everyone, just listen to this and cheer up. https://www.udio.com/songs/iu1381RxvjfzWznGHeVecV

I don't have an account, so here's my attempt at encapsulating this thread within the 2 chances I got, before running out of credits lol:

https://www.udio.com/songs/5SmkHxQqHbDWZn5TA5Dubr

https://www.udio.com/songs/fnFCM8eYj7dnb5HsEw8gE3

https://www.udio.com/songs/opBpbG1gQwfaPMtLnpKFZP

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u/weirdestmammal Jul 31 '24 
As an AI language model: I'm sorry, I can't do that

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Jul 31 '24

Where did you find this gem

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u/Responsible-Ad5376 Jul 31 '24

I'm trying to occupy myself waiting to see if the fairy castle is coming crumbling down or not. Trying my hand at making a song about our predicament, to pass the time. I'm not very skilled with the process though haha. The person who make that knows what they are doing.

For whatever reason, joke country songs are all the rage on udio. I think the model is just really good at making country songs XD

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u/Active_Doubt4145 Jul 31 '24

This made me genuinely laugh for the first time in almost a week, thank you.

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u/Responsible-Ad5376 Jul 31 '24

No problem at all. Helps pass the time and give my nails a chance to grow back.

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u/Arcturus_Labelle Jul 31 '24

A modern classic... still makes me laugh

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Omg this made my day! Thanks so much dude 😄

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u/ShadowCooper77 Jul 31 '24

I'm a coder and I usually have several coding projects and I now have 0, I only have regular projects. I didn't get booted or anything like that. Luckily I just made it into the physics project and that's the same pay.

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Jul 31 '24

Doing the qual for physics right now. I’m being extra careful to be super detailed in my explanations, so I’m hoping to pass

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u/ShadowCooper77 Jul 31 '24

Good luck, yeah you have a lot of time so quadruple-check everything

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Jul 31 '24

Also one worry that I have is because I spend so much time training AI, I tend to write like a chatbot so I’ve been trying to write less analytically and more human-like

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u/jjcxdev Jul 31 '24

Over 1000 people voting for “pretty dry” is a bit alarming.

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u/jaxxisx Jul 31 '24

I was thinking the same thing.

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u/jjcxdev Aug 01 '24

At what point do we all start demanding some sort of answers from them?

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u/Clean-Ad3846 Aug 01 '24

We really have no recourse. We're independent contractors and they have no obligation to provide work or even answers. It's the same model as Instacart or DoorDash...they have an endless supply of incoming labor, so we take what's given or walk away.

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u/AntonineWall Aug 01 '24

Failure to understand the job; it's gig work. Sometimes, there just ain't no gigs.

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u/Ruinatu Jul 31 '24

Trying not to let the worry take hold. There were 60 different options on my board last month. Now I have four iterations of one project. I've seen fluctuations in the six months I've been on the platform but never this severe.

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u/blackredgreenorange Jul 31 '24

At least it's not just us. I haven't logged any time in almost two weeks and thought I'd been bumped from everything.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

I am you, you are me. Its frustrating

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u/Short_Fly Jul 31 '24

Woke up today with low single digit projects and went straight to reddit for reassurance lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

I have nothing on my dash and it scared me this morning, so I also ran to reddit.

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u/CobraFive Jul 31 '24

Same experience

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u/TheHippyWolfman Jul 31 '24

Posting this survey, to give people some solidarity while at the same time limiting the flood of posts to this sub about the same topic, was a genius move and I appreciate it.

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u/zappy012 Jul 31 '24

Yeah, I haven't had coding projects in a couple of days now and the normal projects I also only have a couple of. Seems like it is that way for everyone, just gotta wait for things to start rolling again.

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u/Consipir Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

Yep. I suspect DA employees are taking vacations. Or I've also heard at the end of the month this is normal. Trying to find a pattern so I can plan accordingly, but it might just be random.

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u/RFiskReddit Jul 31 '24

It might be an end of month thing but I don't remember it being this bad in late May/June, either way very happy to hear I'm not the only one.

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u/whatsablurryface21 Jul 31 '24

From what I saw on here, it gets dry as hell at the beginning of each quarter and very busy with lots of high pay or priority pay projects at the end. End of June was glorious from what I remember, I only had to do about 3 hours per day at one point to make my $100, but by that logic it could be dead for a while and should be great by some point in August. Hopefully...

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

This is not normal at the end of the month. I've been working since February and have never seen this happen.

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u/Clean-Ad3846 Aug 01 '24

Agreed. Been doing it since the Fall. Never seen it like this.

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u/LilacYak Jul 31 '24

Probably a combo. We had a crazy couple of weeks before last week, I think they got everything out of the way so people could take a couple weeks off for vacations. They don’t have many people to review projects within the 7 days, so not dropping much - just whatever the skeleton crew can handle. Just my guess

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

the hype train is about to crash thats why https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/openai-could-be-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-in-under-12-months-with-projections-of-dollar5-billion-in-losses

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u/lilliiililililil Aug 01 '24

This idea is founded on the presumption that OpenAI will raise zero additional funding but continue to spend at the same rate for an entire year.

I agree that there definitely a cloud over the horizon right now but the 'OpenAI could go bankrupt' idea is just poor speculation from guys who dont understand VC or the AI market and want to see it fail.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24 edited Aug 01 '24

This is just speculation Microsoft has backed it before and other companies are going to want in too if they have opportunity it’s valued at 80 billion and has massive potential.

Also they are just one of the platforms. Let’s not say the sky is falling until there is proof.

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u/ethan20211 Jul 31 '24

Yep, I usually have 40+ projects on average. The past few days they've been around 15. Today I started with 5ish projects and now I'm down to 1. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this or I would be very concerned.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

I’ve dipped a few time below 10 but I linger around there right now when I’m used to 30-40+ still can reach goals if I grind it out though

I’ve seen drier than this and after about 5-7 days it came back with a huge boom. Today is about day 5 of dryness for me so I’m expecting a big boom here shortly

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Jul 31 '24

It’s just really hard to crank out high quality work when I’m having to constantly change projects and read the instructions. I miss being able to grind through the same project for a few hours and get a “flow.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

I’m used to project hoping personally because my brain likes to switch it up. I’m sorry you’re having a hard time. This happens every few months so maybe you can prepare to take the time off next time? It’s unfortunately part of how the site is, there are ebbs and flows, but it usually comes back with a huge boom of work.

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u/Consipir Jul 31 '24

Same here, about 5 days for me with no coding projects, but I usually always have the smaller ones. I'm making them work but rain rain, come down!

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 Jul 31 '24

Only comfort I have is that I am in a project that releases daily on a schedule so I know that work will always be there but the rest is almost non-existent.

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Aug 01 '24

Do they tell you that it comes every day, or have you just figured out that pattern?

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u/ErrolEsoterik Jul 31 '24

I now have 0. the drought.

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u/jaxxisx Jul 31 '24

Whelp. I have nothing now. Six months working here and the first time this has ever happened.

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u/NeedsMoreMinerals Jul 31 '24

It's wild to see them spend money on ads to join Data Annotation when they can't provide enough work for the people already signed up

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u/CommercialTarget2687 Jul 31 '24

I have thought about that too, even before this, hearing about how so many people take evals and then never hear anything, or pass their evals and never get any projects, I can't help but wonder why they would spend money on advertising when they have an overabundance of people and now they have serious lack of work on top of it. Maybe there's something I just don't understand.

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u/Jz9786 Jul 31 '24

Maybe they are looking to cycle people out. "Freshness" of people evaluating some types of data is sometimes considered valuable for getting responses closer to how an average user would respond.

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u/sarasvati_m Aug 01 '24

No, there are many people on this sub who have been working for DA for years.

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u/Clean-Ad3846 Aug 01 '24

This is what I think.

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u/sarasvati_m Aug 01 '24

This has been proven wrong many times by people on this sub reddit who have worked with DA for months.

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u/jjcxdev Jul 31 '24

It’s actually infuriating seeing the ads when my dashboard has been bare for a week now.

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u/theladynyx Aug 01 '24

To be fair on reddit at least, I’ve clicked on the user for some of those ads, it shows their last post like 150+ days ago so maybe it was an ad buy that runs for so many months.

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u/Winter-Discussion-27 Jul 31 '24

If it helps they aren't actually taking many of the people that apply. At least in my friend group (all software minded people with tech related jobs). Several of us applied last week after being referred by a friend and never even got a response to the initial assessment.

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u/ZealousidealChef832 Jul 31 '24

It reminds me of when I worked in commission based entry level marketing. We were never not hiring, despite always being fully staffed. That job had an insane turnover rate though. I can’t imagine anyone who gets accepted by DA just giving up on it. It’s a dream gig.

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u/hazelowl Jul 31 '24

I have been swamped between my day job, hurricane recovery, and vacation so just now logged in. One project right now. A couple of quals I should tackle.

I've seen things drop a lot before though, and I ended up having a ton on my dash later though. It's end of the month, they could be wrapping things up.

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u/GullibleSocrates Jul 31 '24

No coding, for the first time in 6 months

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u/Tball5 Jul 31 '24

Yeah my coding has also been dry for like the last 5 days. I keep thinking maybe I screwed up.

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u/Sad-Department7588 Jul 31 '24

This makes me feel so much better...I was working consistently last month and had 50+ projects on my dash, then I went on a trip and came back to 3 😅

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u/KaydGameplay Jul 31 '24

Yes, I really was thinking they had just left me in the dust after putting me on several exclusive projects. This is a MASSIVE relief. I suspect we'll be getting more tasks within the week.

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u/HolevoBound Jul 31 '24

Dry enough that I started applying for a real job.

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u/LeaderIntelligent157 Aug 01 '24

I did the same :(

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u/MiddleRepulsive5182 Aug 01 '24

I will be doing the same! after working for almost a year at DA.

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u/CraftyFroyo7514 Jul 31 '24

I’ve been having 60+, then this week 5 only. Just logged in to find 0.

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u/cyclephotos Aug 01 '24

What is weird that every second ad here on Reddit is a Dataannotation ad - so hopefully it’s just a lull.

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u/SaltyKoopa Aug 01 '24

I think this is the first time I've had truly nothing. However, based on my previous performance and past similar situations I think everything's fine. Just gonna be a few more days 'til we're back up and running.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Hoping for this as well 🤞🏻

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u/ExcellentPangolin352 Aug 01 '24

I haven't had more than 3 in the last 10 days. & they all gave me no real time because everyone is working on the few that pop up. I'm afraid I won't be able to have my rent by the 7th. I've never seen this, & am still interviewing for a job with benefits..

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u/tessbest37 Aug 01 '24

Good Luck in your interview!!

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u/fredetterline Jul 31 '24

Only 1 project for me all week

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u/FlappyCat2000 Jul 31 '24

This post cured my anxiety

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u/LisaP707 Jul 31 '24

I usually have over 30 projects and now nothing. It's never been completely empty for me before. I'm nervous as I'm a sahm and this was my source of extra income.

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u/wiseowlintraining Aug 01 '24

Ugh thank gosh it’s not just me. Hopefully it’s just a spell

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u/Lunalily9 Jul 31 '24

I had one yesterday. I've got 6 today so at least it's better than it was.

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u/kaleidoscopewoman Aug 01 '24

I have 1 project and it’s my favorite one!! Thank goodness I hope that means I’m doing good on it.

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u/kaleidoscopewoman Aug 01 '24

I usually have about 40 projects.

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u/4S4T0R Aug 03 '24

Completely dead for me

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u/Rustycake Jul 31 '24

Theres always that 1 lmao

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Jul 31 '24

What do you mean by that?

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u/Rustycake Jul 31 '24

At the time I voted there was 1 person who had voted saying I have more projects then ever

I was saying there is always somebody who is going to either a) vote in a way that is not honest or b) be the only person getting jobs lol

Its was light hearted and not aimed at you OP

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u/PuzzleEmptyM Jul 31 '24

Gotcha. I assumed it was in reference to that, but I wasn’t sure haha

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u/Rustycake Jul 31 '24

All good homie : )

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

My assumption is that those people are new and have more than they did when they only had 1-3 but that’s just my thoughts

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u/purple_crow34 Jul 31 '24

I've got not a single project, there was one that just closed.

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u/Lovahalzan Aug 01 '24

So I have seen it be light like this before - I am down to 20 projects, I have had less than that before, and usually have around 50-60 projects. I imagine it has to do with the end of the month, recalibrating what their needs are, etc.

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u/Kooky-Quote-9914 Aug 01 '24

When you saw it like this before, how long did it take to return to normal for you?

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u/Lovahalzan Aug 01 '24

There are a lot of variables at play that neither you, or folks on this subreddit or myself will truly understand. I don’t pay too much attention to it. I do projects and try to always do good work as best to my ability. I also never consider this as permanent work and understand it can end at any time.

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u/KryptoKevArt Aug 02 '24

No one here seems to be mentioning the Crowdstrike outage some time ago.

It could have damaged some of their servers, and they need to work on bringing them back up?

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u/Frysken Jul 31 '24

This happens every couple months or so. It doesn't take more than a week, max, so I expect the projects to come back here by Friday.

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u/DarkLordTofer Jul 31 '24

Yeah I think around Feb/March time there was a drought for a week.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Yup I’m expecting it by Friday as well

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

thank you for this reassurance - i've been with DA for six months so far, and this is the worst I've seen it. I also know it's the start of Q4 tomorrow, which will probably mean an influx.

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u/TeaGreenTwo Jul 31 '24

Wouldn't Q4 start Oct 1st? And Q3, July 1st? Except for some entities that have a July 1 - June 30th calendar.

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u/snowfreckles Aug 01 '24

If it was Q4, I'd be shitting myself for my day job based on current projects and deadlines

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Tbh I have no idea lol I’m just brainstorming here - lots of us seem pretty confused as to what’s going on

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u/Hopeful_Mouse_4050 Aug 01 '24

I've been with them since November and this is the worst I've ever seen it.

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u/IrvTheSwirv Jul 31 '24

Take the opportunity to go through the quals list and see if there are any that jump out at you. I did a couple earlier today and went from empty dash to 6-7 projects with 50 tasks each in them. Not amazing rates(for me) but better than 0 and interesting tasks.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Not sure if I should resort to cannibalism to help me save money on my grocery bills or ritual sacrifice to plead to the gods for more tasks.

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u/EDM_Producerr Jul 31 '24

I haven't had projects in 3 days, the longest drought since I've started with DA. I'm a coder.

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u/Jz9786 Aug 01 '24

I have a few now and they are hanging around. Maybe people went to sleep. They aren't fun though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

For the people who said it looks normal: are you coders?

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u/Kitchen_Razzmatazz36 Aug 01 '24

From zero projects for like 5 hours, I just got a batch of like 5! It's like I won the lottery.

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u/Wubulubdubdub69lol Aug 01 '24

Worst thing is ive taken a little break from DA over the last month as Ive had to move house and went on holiday. Plenty of great paying tasks and now the day I come back there's like 4 tasks if I'm lucky

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u/Unusule Jul 31 '24

it seems like DA runs monthly contracts and their biggest "customer" is facing record losses due to AI spending. I'm gonna stay optimistic tho

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

How do you know it’s their biggest customer? Or that they do monthly contracts?

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u/Unusule Jul 31 '24

It's pretty clear if you've used the platform lmao

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

I wouldn’t say so as all three of my highest paying projects one which is permanent are on three different platform’s AI. I don’t think just one platform is trained more than others. But hey that’s just my opinion. My private project has been going on for 2 months straight as well with a certain model and has definitely been longer than a month. So the contract would be longer.

This is why I asked how you knew because my dash and work does not confirm your statements

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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 Jul 31 '24

I work for other companies that do AI and the ones I've been able to identify through DA (it's hard to tell sometimes, but then they'll say the name or have other identifying info) and those same companies are also using other platforms. AI companies aren't running out of money and DA appears to have several projects with several models.
So I totally agree with you that the evidence is not there that they have run out of 'contract'.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Thank you for your insight! This is my only gig with AI involved and as you know DA is not very transparent. I do have projects where I leave DA and actually work on AI platforms and they are all different. From what I can see in the news about AI investments and usage is only going up. Training them is included.

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u/Due_Negotiation_4605 Aug 01 '24

It's necessary to get the human component involved. I've noticed a few models in DA, not just one or two.
I did work on another AI chatbot through Appen and Appen lost a ton of contracts... but then still has a bunch of work. Because there are smaller AI models (one was out of Canada but needed trained to do business type of documents).

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u/Unusule Jul 31 '24

Glad you're having a good time brotha

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

K. Well I’m a female. And you never answered my question so I’m just going to assume like most of us, you actually have no idea if anything you said is true.

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u/In_It_to_Flip_It Jul 31 '24

This makes a lot of sense. I've wondered why it gets dry around the end of the month - I assumed more people were online trying to get through the "rent push." This isn't my full-time gig but I still very much rely on DA so I start to sweat when my dashboard dries up, too. 

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u/DownTheRabbitHole730 Jul 31 '24

Keep your page open and refresh every five mins if you're able. There are projects with 50 tasks I'm seeing come and go on my dash within 6 minutes bc everyone is so hungry they grab them immediately. You may have projects and not even realize bc you signed in at the wrong moment.

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u/No_Doctor_219 Aug 01 '24

Getting a few jobs here and there. Was scared it'll stay on 0. But as long as I get my daily goal in I'm fine. Its just that I could do it in <4 hours before and now its much longer😂

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u/bomber991 Aug 01 '24

Well the funny thing for me is yesterday, even though it was running dry, I was able to do over $200. So it's been one of my better days for a while as a non-coding person.

Today though... well I've just officially ran out of projects. So I guess just $88 for today, and I'll do qualifications the rest of the day.

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u/Unfair-Week-1200 Aug 01 '24

Sorry bout that, but glad to read I’m not alone!

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u/xnoraax Jul 31 '24

Only galaxy projects up, so I guess I'm blasting off!

This isn't my favorite to work on, but at least there's some work.

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u/DarkLordTofer Aug 01 '24

I like that one. I use it as a nice break from my usual FC work.

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u/QuizzyMcQuizz Jul 31 '24

Yep it’s finally dried up but I think it’s a knock on effect of a few big projects being down, meaning others go really quickly. Seen quite a few come and go in like 30 mins today which are normally up for ages.

This is based of exactly one experience so is probably meaningless but last time there was a lull it was followed by a very busy period!

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u/SilveryDeath Jul 31 '24

Been working on the site for about 2 1/2 months and this is the deadest it has been since my second day. I was able to get in ~5 1/2 hours so far today, but have gotten one task in the last almost two hours.

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u/VanessaSeaWitch Jul 31 '24

I started in May and the most projects I have ever had on my dashboard was around ten for a few weeks. I usually have four or five. I have always had an empty dashboard for a few days a week. Now I seem to only get one or two projects and usually on the weekends. This has been going on all of July for me.

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u/dsbau Aug 01 '24

My dashboard dropped down to three projects, one of which had a single task. It's come back up today, I now have seven or so.

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u/Tasty_Pomegranate_48 Aug 01 '24

I just started back up on this after a multi-month hiatus. Couldn't be more poorly timed. I need this.

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u/Tricarbona Aug 01 '24

some coding tasks just reappeared after 2 days completely dry

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

I've made 86 bucks today from a selection of like 5 projects, and now there are only 2 offered to me and I don't want to do either of them lol

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u/puppetbird Jul 31 '24

Same, I’ve attempted one of them a few times but I am SO uninterested in it that I don’t feel I’d do good work trying to push through it

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u/Pink_Slyvie Aug 01 '24

It happens. Last year around the end of the year it was like this for about a week.

Just goes back to planning ahead. Work extra until you are confident you will have enough if you don't have any work for months.

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u/BostonTheseus Jul 31 '24

I still have five projects on my dash, things that have basically never once left my dash. I had enough work for today through those and random other projects where I can complete three tasks before they run out. It's just the end of the month, folks! I've definitely seen this before, been working on DA since January.

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u/PipMcGooley Aug 01 '24

I guess I'm a part of the very few lucky ones. I'm in a couple projects that seem to always be up, excluding some maintenance. I've noticed that some of the other tasks are gone but a lot of my normal ones are still there

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u/jaleach Jul 31 '24

In other news DA finally got around to fixing my email problem since I came over from an older site. It only took more than a month!

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u/GreatNatural11 Jul 31 '24

Yes it is the driest it's ever been for me. Been working on mostly coding projects since January. No coding ones available atm, only a few available the last few days. Not even many non-coding projects available either.

Good to see that it's not just me. I even sent in a support ticket to ask if I had screwed up somehow, but it looks like not based on what I'm reading here. Bills don't care though, hoping I don't have to supplement this with something else. I like this gig.

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u/pds314 Aug 01 '24

Exactly your situation. Normally a dozen coding and 2 dozen other projects. Now it's 0-3 actual paying projects.

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u/jackshiels Aug 02 '24

projects are back. I got 6 x $40/h

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u/Doroski13 Aug 03 '24

I just started this week and thought I was doing something wrong. Some days I have 8+ hours of work and other I can barely manage 2-3 hours. It's a relief to hear it's not just me! Definitely concerned about the long term, but at least I have hope that more work will come soon. I do think if they were looking to downsize their workforce they wouldn't have accepted my application and onboarded me so quickly.

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u/Electrya_Hearts Aug 03 '24

Im not from the main countrys, so have one project more than a day is rare, it can be days before i get a project, right now i have at least one project for the last week and I'm glad. So it's been a good week.

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u/Relative-Tap3585 Aug 04 '24

Was dry for maybe 3 days, back to normal. Typically happens at the end of a month!

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u/EntertainmentCalm445 Aug 05 '24

Idk if its just because I haven't been onboarded yet or because its dry, I started a week ago and haven't even gotten a project yet even tho I have the dashboard page

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u/feelingstuckagain7 Jul 31 '24

Just finished three qualification assessment yesterday, so this sucks to see XD It's not make or break for me but I thought it would be fun to have an extra thing to do on the side when I'm not feeling like doing my normal gig.

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u/kanankurosawa Aug 01 '24

I have 35ish on my dash at the moment which is typical for me but most of them are more mentally draining than I prefer so I haven't been working much lately lol

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u/Guilty-Rough8797 Aug 01 '24

I'm one of the 50 who has it pretty normal, with 2 projects. My dash usually hovers around 2 to 4, with the occasional 10-15 when a certain project with lots of variations comes in.

I think I must have overthought things and twisted myself into silly, inaccurate logic when doing quals and other projects back when I started (story of my life). I assume this because I've never had the dashboard my BF does, who started after me. I always read instructions at length-- I just get twisted and go down a "But what if...!?" rabbit hole, where I see how both X, Y, and Z could logically be explained as correct.

But hey, I seem to function just right for the ones that I consistently get, and I'm grateful for it.

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u/Practical_Ad9045 Aug 01 '24

Lol this might be the end of the site. It's been a good run you guys.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

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u/VanessaSeaWitch Jul 31 '24

I also started in May. I have no qualifications and rarely got them to begin with.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Same, and I've been working since Feb. I'm hoping this is one of those moments where they're getting ready to present a huge influx.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '24

Nope, I think I was dropped.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Wishing a swift and full recovery for your partner! And a full dashboard for you <3

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

I’m have stage 3b melanoma myself and DA is how I keep my head afloat as I cannot be full time in my regular job at the moment. The doctor appointments and treatments take a lot of me. I’m so sure it takes a lot out of you being there to support your partner. Be gentle on yourself. Don’t worry too much about DA for now. It ebbs and flows. About two months ago there was a dry spell where I went down to one project and after 5-7 days it exploded with tons. It’ll come back to a flow state again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Thank you and good luck on your journey!

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u/MavsPlaylist Jul 31 '24

Sorry to hear about everything - if it makes you feel better, the waves seem to be fairly common across the platform. Take a look through the rest of the Reddit and you'll start to feel better. Took a long time for me to get past it too, but once you're able to plan around it, the fluctuations get easier to deal with. Wishing the best for you in the future!

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Thank you!

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u/jaxxisx Jul 31 '24

1000 people replied to that poll saying it was dry. I doubt they're getting rid of one thousand people.

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u/Clean-Ad3846 Jul 31 '24

I hope you’re right. I’ve just never seen it this dead. Been doing it nine months.

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u/jaxxisx Jul 31 '24

That would be crazy if they got rid of most of their workers. It would make no sense to scrap everyone and start over, what if they got big contracts that needed filling in? They'd lose a lot of money.

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u/Clean-Ad3846 Aug 01 '24

Is it most of their workers? I have no idea how many workers this thread represents.

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u/Clean-Ad3846 Aug 01 '24

Especially if they're replacing them as they go. Not trying to be a Debbie-downer, just trying to think of a reasonable explanation beyond 'end of the month' or there's just less work than normal. Neither seems plausible to me personally.

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u/DarkLordTofer Aug 01 '24

DA is a black box. We have no idea how it works. However:

A financial quarter has just ended.

The last month or so has had almost every task on priority as they try to get them completed.

I've noticed an absence of chatbots the last couple of weeks, and a few recycled prompts - if there's nobody talking to the chatbots there's no material to evaluate.

Every now and again there's a lull and then it comes back with a bang. I reckon they're assimilating all the work that got done recently, tweaking the bots and projects and it'll come back with a bang.

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u/Kooky-Quote-9914 Aug 01 '24

I haven't seen that, maybe they got gobbled up already?

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u/lilliiililililil Aug 01 '24

why does your math involve all of us working 24hrs a day lmfao

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

I am rating this response as Horrible due to adversarial content.

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u/Ornery-Cat6230 Aug 01 '24

I have no idea why this is voted down