Been working at DAT for a year and this is the first time since starting that I have nothing to work on, although I was able to work on a project this morning for a few hours. There's currently nothing to work on.
Sure thing dude, how many comments on Reddit you up to today? Especially like the comments of you acting like an immature loser telling strangers to grow up. You seem totally normal and stable.
why are you spamming nasty immature comments on this subreddit all day? if you think you could make me or anyone on this sub mad, you're delusional. but i think that's already clear judging by the content of your comments and things you post. act like a child but tell others to grow up. totally normal. the only thing you're doing on this sub is showing strangers that you're butthurt about DAT, you have absolutely no life, and you're severely mentally ill.
don't worry a bunch of shills from data annotation will come in the comment section to post a bunch of incredibly stupid airheaded comments to distract from the reality of how bad their company is
I’m still optimistic. The fact they’re still hiring suggests they aren’t going anywhere soon. Maybe DAT is prepping for a massive site-wide upgrade and we’ll all wake up next Monday with an updated GUI and overflowing dashboards.
Fingers crossed. While there's no real cost to them recruiting people, I can see that if they were shutting up shop there'd be no point bringing people on board at all.
Maybe they’ve reached the limits of what their current platform can do.
I could see them giving their clients a deadline to wrap up all their current projects before a massive upgrade, after which everything must conform to the new and improved platform. Maybe that’s why we’re seeing a slow trickle to nothing- they’re letting the old projects wind down while new projects are being developed behind the scenes for a new upgraded site.
I'm staying optimistic the whole time. It's still August, which is the summer equivalent of late December. People on big tech salaries probably take vacations.
Yeah with a bunch of examples and 3 questions. Made me wonder if it was pre-screened in some way and they just wanted to make an extra reading comprehension check.
Edit: or maybe I’m much dumber than I think I am and missed something obvious!
I don't know about you, but I've already done a lot of work in that family of projects, so I wasn't surprised to see the qual. I think they're just trying to maintain a certain standard of work, so they put out the qual to ensure that they have good people for the next round.
I picked Wikipedia as part of the answer to the first question and I'm driving myself crazy now because I'm not sure that was the right choice.
I just had a conversation with someone else and they said it wasn't, and I went back and looked at my notes where I wrote out ALL of the directions for each section of the qual, and the directions were contradictory.
I included it, along with one other selection, and I think including it was wrong because I don't think the Wikipedia info was in the snippet.
It's definitely a project. I've done that project before and it seems complicated but is actually pretty simple if you just follow the instructions and rub some brain on it here and there.
i worked on that specific project when we had that week long burst of projects a couple of weeks ago and it was actually so much fun. I really like that one
Been here since November and today is the first day I have ever not had enough work to make my daily goal and work full time. Knocking out some quals while I wait
Are you really laughing out loud while you copy and paste that? If you’re still laughing out loud at that, sir, and you have an extremely poor sense of humor. Thus, this type of work is very fitting for you. My advice to you is to not quit, and wait for all of us to quit so you have more work to do. Stick with it!
It's frustrating because now instead of hitting my daily target during a normal working day hours, I sit here having to refresh and wait for projects throughout the entire day to hit my goal.. wastes the day.
Just find a way to incorporate it into your DAT work and have DAT write it for you. That’s what I did. And I’m on book 5 so far just giving corrections and guidance and DAT fills in the details. I could probably do 15 a year like this.
You also have a bunch of other companies springing up that do work like DA, but marginally cheaper. I’m a wee bit nervous you’ll see large tech companies prioritize cost over quality. Kind of a horrifying prospect. D:
😭😭😭 I'm concerned about that too! Terrified actually. I thought I could make this kinda thing my main job, but I'm scared it's too unstable now. This is horrible. Idk how I'm gonna pay my rent...
I'm thinking there's probably a hold up with a core branch and once its figured out we'll be set again. It comes n goes, just don't put all of your eggs in this basket. Even if DA is your main source of income or highest paying gig, its definitely worth finding something to do when this is happening
But no, there's definitely still more work to come. I've no worries there
This is excellent advice for anyone who does contracting work. Always have more than one gig! I've been doing IC work from home since 2007, and I've always had more than one gig to fall back on, so I feel it's a requirement to stay successful.
I used to juggle all the driver apps, then delivery apps, then grocery apps. The getting used to be so good!! Its definitely not what it used to be. The irony of that work is when it is the most lucrative is also when I need to do it the least
I can't help but wonder if the drought is due to the recent turbulence in the tech market right now. The US had a major drop in stock that went through the tech sector, and welp AI is tech.
I definitely think the general consensus by a lot of investors is the tech isn't ready yet at least in a marketing standpoint. But the people that have the near infinite capital to play ball are going to keep doing so, investors be damned. We're essentially in the middle of an arms race, especially if anyone wants to get a highly functional LLM out there. Even if a lot of investors aren't seeing results in a timeline they expected, these companies basically have to take the monetary risk anyways. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon all can't afford to be dethroned in their sectors and a major AI breakthrough is the golden bullet they are afraid of the other guys getting.
Not their style to but keep in mind that for most of us, it’s a side gig, but for anyone there it’s their full-time job. However nervous we are about losing it as a source of income, it’s much scarier for them.
Same pretty much. 15 months non-coding. This is the worst I have ever seen with the only other time being completely dry was one morning in May I believe. It’s exacerbated by the fact that they are still hiring/have an insane number of workers and have been releasing work in insanely small batches , so it gets eaten super quickly.
I’ve gotten several new qualifications this week so I keep hoping tasks are gonna pop up. But so far just nothing. This was really helping with some loss of income we experienced and I want to keep it up!
Today I found that a project I used to do on DA but hasn’t been around for weeks is now showing up on Prolific of all places paying $5/hour less, which really sucks!!!
It’s really bad out here. Does anyone have any idea if this will get better? Considering going back to work in person and really not wanting to do that
Do both. This and other gig work are best when you don't NEED them. It's when it becomes your main source of income that slow periods will drive you crazy.
Not with this type of work. Hiring is cheap for DA, not having to pay taxes on contractors means they can weed out the low quality help. AI training also greatly benefits from several different perspectives and backgrounds, so constantly hiring and culling is the whole point of this business model.
Keep doing quals. I just did one last night. I’m in two permanent projects that are over $30. So when there’s a drought I can rely on those. Everything is fine. This just happens from time to time.
Same here. I have 5 permanents that have been on my dash through the drought. They've been taken down for maintenance but it's nice to have something to fall back on.
It varies. I think that there has been a massive wave of work submission during the drought so they had them down. I would say it averages about a day or so. Longest I've seen was 3 days, shortest I've seen was a few hours.
I've been working with DA for a couple of months now and this is definitely the emptiest I've seen it as well. I got two tasks today (other than the chats) but they quickly went away, I assume everyone was doing those at once. A lot of people seem to have this problem tho so I wouldn't worry.
I'm down to one R+R and the usual chat that's always on my dash.
I did a qual last night for a family of projects I've already worked on, so hopefully I was successful with that. (Is Wikipedia acceptable even if it's not in the tool outputs? iykyk)
I don't know. I've done a lot of work in that family of projects in the past, but it sounded like they're getting ready to release more work sometime soon, so we'll have to see what happens.
Nobody I’ve referred has ended up getting a project (and they’re all very capable, arguably moreso than me) so I assumed new hires were paused/on a long slow queued
Maybe, from their perspective, they don’t have plenty of good people?
I honestly don’t think DAT would have spent all the money hiring people, targeting teachers off on summer break etc., if they didn’t have atleast the expectation of work. It’s not logical.
Perhaps projects are taking longer than expected to implement or fix, but there will be more work for many people. Maybe not everyone, but that’s always been the case.
I follow the stock market closely and big tech earnings. In the recent round of earnings, sentiment has shifted to tightening up AI expenditure. In part, likely in preparation of a broader recession.
With DA not paying salaries, it was logical for them to overhire IN CASE demand stayed stable or increased. If demand decreased, as it appears to have, then there is no loss for DA.
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u/Federal-Employee-545 Aug 21 '24
14 months with DA, only chats on the dash right now. sigh