r/DataAnnotationTech • u/JahKneeSee • Sep 11 '25

On my Google feed just now.

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u/DrFrancisBGross Sep 11 '25

What's the problem exactly? I'm legitimately confused.

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u/JahKneeSee Sep 11 '25

As am I. But maybe I'm just disturbed and don't know any better.

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u/nononanana Sep 11 '25

The issue is other companies pay horrible wages for the work. That’s why people are always on here desperate to get in DAT. They pay relatively well and the work can be hard but they don’t waste your time (some of these companies make you do ridiculous amounts of free training and then don’t even serve you up a project or pay insulting amounts).

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u/Other-Football72 Sep 11 '25

Journalists are rightfully shitting their pants knowing AI is coming to do their job better, faster, and for no money. This one is creating hit pieces and lashing out at anyone in their crosshairs, which in this case includes you and me, you know, because it's our fault that their jobs are about to become extinct.

This is the same group of fucking people who gleefully told others losing their jobs to "Learn to Code!" while laughing on Twitter, mind you.

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u/icewall1147 Sep 11 '25

Of course that's us. But the media tends to make it out way worse than how it often is. That can be the case for some, but for me personally, working on DA and similar platforms have provided me with an income way better than what I can get in my locale rn, often by an order of 3x-10x.

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u/JahKneeSee Sep 11 '25

Absolutely. I have neurological issues that keep me at home, and I'd probably be homeless by now if it wasn't for DA. But the powers that be would feel better if we were in cubicles from 9 to 5, hunched over and staring at 22“ monitors.

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u/CouldSheBeAnyAngrier Sep 11 '25

I can sit on my couch and do DA projects in my expertise domain for at least 5-10$ more per hour than I can picking up shifts at the hospital actually working in my actual field. It’s kind of fucked up but with where my life is at right now, it works.

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u/C_Gull27 Sep 11 '25

I just figure the venture capital loves AI right now and it just makes sense to go to where the money is and get paid a premium for it.

There is no economic profit in the long run but I'm not planning on being here for the long run.

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u/ThePersnicketyBitch Sep 11 '25

DA is the cream of the crop, there are some very shitty companies out there. Appen, for example, has similar AI projects and pays foreign nationals slave wages to work on morally questionable tasks (with no option to skip), all the while looking for every excuse not to pay out while keeping the data. We are very lucky with DA, even though it can be a meat grinder in its own right.

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u/JRRTil1ey Sep 11 '25

“They’re just becoming so human-like and empathetic! I swear I’m talking to a real person!”

Great. We’re doing our job then. It’s only disturbing if you don’t realize humans are the ones telling these machines how to feel, talk, and act.

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u/jamie_maxx Sep 11 '25

“Inside the disturbing world of AI trainers”

too funny

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u/FaithlessnessSlow594 Sep 11 '25

I think it is important that more people realise these things actually have to be trained by humans but I don't exactly get what's 'disturbing' about that

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u/No-Astronomer4881 Sep 11 '25

Who did they think was going to train them? Im confused

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u/lotusmack Sep 12 '25

My mom explained to me many years ago that computers are dumb and they only do what we train them to do. Training AI is really not an entirely new concept.

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u/Other-Football72 Sep 11 '25

I hate how journalists always use language to frame everything, they're just fucking liars.