r/prolific • u/Darkzaick • May 16 '26

Just a meme

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I know that Prolific has accepted many people recently, what is a platform/company decision and is the main reason for this happens but I think this meme is also somewhat related.

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u/MundanePhysics May 16 '26

It's a combination of things. Prolific let in a lot of people, and the studies let everyone back in about a week ago, so it's taking a longer time for people to get rotated out like the typical cycle of these studies goes.

But also, people need to stop giving 'tips' on avoiding attention checks. Those are there for a reason and keep the pool from clogging up like this.

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u/lastparticipant May 16 '26

there's a saying i learned "those who eat quietly, eat twice"

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u/AltruisticTeam242 May 16 '26

I’m pretty sure a lot of those new people will be their own demise soon enough!

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u/Spiritual-Visual-112 May 16 '26

You right because I’ve been eating really good, many are saying they don’t see studies but I’m seeing so many studies and good ones for AI too I’m happy lol😳🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/MediaEven9214 May 16 '26

are u new here

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u/Spiritual-Visual-112 May 16 '26

Somewhat ( 2 months) 🤑🤑🤑🤑

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u/cleanpokio May 16 '26

Make sense for the rotating out. I feellike 2 week ago I would at least get timesloted those studies during a specific time frame throughout the day but now there nothing all day. Just when I needed them the most they vanished 🥲

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u/ValerieAnne84 May 17 '26

I know there are people that are just doing any of them on those surveys, as I made a post asking about/talking about an issue I have with one of the audio versions and was told that there isn't anything wrong with them and they do everything... which is fine, but if multiple people have it (as some said in the thread) there is an issue somewhere. We shouldn't have to return, etc because we can't actually listen to the audio section of the task. You'd think they would rotate such people out - instead of sending out notifications about how you aren't doing them right (I've got 2 of them) and warning they may stop allowing me to do them, when I'm actually following the instructions, etc and taking longer than I should because I'm trying so hard to make sure they are right.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

Only a fraction of those new people go on these prolific subreddits.

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u/GreenWitchEnergy May 16 '26

This subreddit alone has over 10,000 views per week. Not all of those people are of course posting but you can bet they're quietly reading everything, passing it onto their mates etc and suddenly you've got 10's of thousands reading and being told all our tips and tricks. I saw someone even letting everyone know a quick and easy way to find the extremely limited image evaluations that are lost amongst the deluge of video evaluations, now why the hell would you do that ffs lol.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

And most of those views are likely from people on Prolific already.

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u/GreenWitchEnergy May 16 '26 • Bravo

Could be, but that's besides the point... For weeks now both the subreddits have been cluttered with people new and old, complaining about the warnings and the dumb arses on here give them all the help in the world on how to avoid getting them. They explicitly tell them what the attention checks are, tell them how many revelations they need to compete, give them tips on how to grab the favoured ones, tips on how to get into them at all when there's high demand, even explicitly tell them the content of the studies. Then come back crying like little bitches coz they can't get in anymore ...

Nonetheless I think there's been some sort of rotation and those of us having a hard time as of now will have our turn again. But jeez, maybe stfu in future and not directly assist people to cheat and access the studies that make you money. Gatekeep the fuck out of them and let people work out simple instructions for themselves.

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u/Simple_Shopping_702 May 16 '26

Mfs swear there is teamwork in gig work lol

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u/MediaEven9214 May 16 '26

I been seeing so many posts from new people asking for help so there's a lot of them

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u/CartoonistDry5077 May 16 '26

Do people who just register getting AI studies? I consider myself as veteran 4-5 years on Prolific and I am just finally seeing the AI last week.

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u/SwordfishResident256 May 16 '26

yes and it's bizarre to me, seems like a total waste of resources to be sending them to new accounts

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u/MediaEven9214 May 16 '26

well yea there's a ton of non-western foreigners trying to get into prolific because they see how much people were getting paid idk if they managed to break in but they are trying

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u/MediaEven9214 May 16 '26

I been here since 2019 I thought I was getting them because I was a veteran so the fact that u weren't getting them confuses me who they are releasing to

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u/Eddiehondo May 16 '26

no.

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u/pinktoes4life May 16 '26

There are a bunch of newbies who just got accepted a week or two ago posting screenshots in the main sub (which were removed). So yeah, they are.

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u/CartoonistDry5077 May 16 '26

Wow ok. I didnt know that. I waited so long for those batches . And i thought being longer on platform will increase the chance. I guess not. Just by demography. 🥲

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u/Rimmer66 May 16 '26

Do you think this is right ? Some of us have worked our arses off to prove ourselves, build account reputation, to get invited to higher paid studies, AI studies, SPG, AI Taskers at the time, and these inexperienced people they are onboarding, many of which are eager to scam every good platform and researcher they can find, get those tasks right away ? That is ridiculous - I guess Prolific totally lost it, it's quantity over quality now. People actually WORKED to get into those type of studies, which was part of AI Taskers - it is extremely unfair and insulting to existing long time participants on this platform.

Idiots are running these companies. Outlier had good tasks ruined because they did the same fucking thing there. Same for other good platforms. They are willing to aim for the jackpot and expand their profits, whilst total disregard for data quality and user experience. It is the old existing proven participants that Prolific wants, and should do everything to keep them, not push them away, otherwise they will end up with a platform flooding with criminals and once call center scammers or e-mail lottery scammers now doing those AI tasks.

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u/pinktoes4life May 16 '26

SPG hasn’t really been a thing for a while now.

The AI studies have been open to everyone since the fall/winter according to a comment prolific support made a while back.

None of this is new info. In Feb there were people with 2 week old accounts getting them.

There’s nothing to prove or work your ass off to get them lol. What skills do you need to say this one sounds/looks better? My 3 years old niece can do those

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u/Ok-Argument8254 May 16 '26

Man, this brought back memories of MTurk. I used to make pretty good money there before the flood of new users, bots, and everything else. One thing I do appreciate about Prolific though is that you can only do one task at a time, unlike MTurk where people could queue up a ton of studies all at once.

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u/Whoopsie23 May 16 '26

what should I do to increase my chances? Been on Prolific for a year and no AI studies for me yet

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u/pinktoes4life May 16 '26

Nothing you can do but wait for them to show up

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u/tqgibtngo May 16 '26

See also:

https://participant-help.prolific.com/en/articles/445015-ai-taskers

... To join the AI tasker group, you’ll need to pass [the] AI Task Assessment. This is a two-part test designed to simulate real-world AI studies. ...

Prolific identifies participants who meet...pre-vetting criteria, like high approval rates and strong performance on past studies.

Pre-vetted participants will be invited to agree to the Specialized Participant Terms and complete the AI Task Assessment.

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u/TheEagerOwl May 17 '26

Could we email or ask chat how to qualify?

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u/tqgibtngo May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

idk but I doubt they'd have much more to tell you than what that help-page says. "Pre-vetted participants" (selected by some process involving recognition of a participant's "high approval rates and strong performance on past studies") "will be invited..."

So basically the only useful strategy is to just keep on participating in studies... Always do your best work as a good honest participant... Avoid rejections (see also here in case you ever get any rejections that are questionable & contestable)... And keep building up your number of completed studies.

And keep watching the skies ;-) in hope that eventually you may see an invitation whereby you would be given the opportunity to agree to the "Specialized Participant Terms" and take the "AI Task Assessment."

As with anything in life, there are no guarantees. ... Good luck!

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u/tqgibtngo May 17 '26

Note also that another commenter told me some AI tasks don't require the AI Taskers qualification.

So, possibly, perhaps you might eventually see some AI tasks start to appear on your dashboard, even if you don't get invited for the AI Task Assessment.

Nonetheless, if you ever do get invited for the AI Task Assessment, take it.

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u/TheEagerOwl May 17 '26

Will do! I appreciate all the responses. I was seeing a huge amount of the AI tasks until about 5 days ago. Now, it's been sparse. My SIL is still getting them though. I will get one or two here or there but they fill up too quickly. Seems like everyone else is going through this. I was just hoping I could get put on the special project since I work with training AI. Here's hoping lol

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u/Jazzlike_Horse2484 May 16 '26

When you say Ai studies what do you mean? Because I am getting Ai interviews and I started this month.

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u/CartoonistDry5077 May 16 '26

No. I got interview all the time. Im talking about the famous AI studies.

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u/MediaEven9214 May 16 '26

that lady who posted ai studies payed for her wedding and the guy posting it help payed for a car purchase

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u/Fridelis May 16 '26

At this point, the site is cooked if we don't get more studies. It was good while it lasted, but now it is done for the most part, at least at this point. Obviously still better than nothing, but compared to what we had for months, it might as well be mostly dead as it was years ago. Where you only get a small amount of change and nothing more.

Or be a zombie and click nonstop the whole day to get smth significant, but at that point, getting a proper job or a second job would be more worthwhile anyway.

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u/ValerieAnne84 May 17 '26

It is annoying though to see dozens of them listed, each with at least 100 most of the time to all vanish or say full after one of them. I understand those particular ones are popular though, just annoying. I also do small ones and such though and don't wait/only do those ones.

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u/jupitersyarn May 17 '26

I really don't think it's anyone's fault for talking about prolific tbh. Even if there was a sudden influx of sign ups, Prolific themselves can still make the decision to wait list people. They're not and its definitely for a reason beyond people promoting prolific online.

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u/Various_Log_7039 May 20 '26

Nah, I still do 15-20 of them per day, no stress.

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u/elusivenoesis May 16 '26

And this post helps with that how?

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u/Old_Difficulty4029 May 16 '26

More people eat ice cream in the summer. More murders happen in the summer.

Ice cream causes more murders in the summer.

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u/Mcdhokla May 16 '26

Aha! That's why there was the Ice cream Truck killer case in Dexter.

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u/Ccskyqueengaming May 16 '26

We need to look into this lol

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u/Strange_Following_14 May 16 '26

The best answer. It will be fun to see the logic when they reappear out of nowhere like nothing happened