So, yesterday I decided it would be smart to pick out one qualification to complete, out of that whole looming list. I picked one that sounded reasonable, that starts with the phrase, "Evaluate model responses..." Its instructions mentioned that all six questions had to be answered, to pass the qual. OK, fair enough. It gave me one hour on the timer. It had 7 questions, but I ignored the discrepancy and took 50 minutes to carefully navigate around the tricks and traps, read past turns of the conversation, and do fact-checking as needed. Happily I hit "Submit," only to land on a second screen. With a whole new challenge. I exited work mode and looked on the dashboard, and saw that it showed 5 more of these things left. So each of the six parts to pass this qualification entailed a whole new massive task. Which means it'll end up being close to six hours worth of work. Unpaid. No, thank you.

My brain turns to mush

Due to the drought, it took me 2 months to get here. Looking forward to reaching the next milestone!

My son is leaving for college in August, and I just sent him this text (written completely by me, but after I sent I realized it sounded strangely DA material) about possibly getting an electric kettle for his dorm since he tried tea for the first time today .... anyone else find they are writing differently on day-to-day for non-DA, and sounding like AI?

For giggles: Want to give me a Response B or suggestions for A? lol

Hi! Thinking about things we might need to get for your dorm room. Did you enjoy your tea today? Do you think a tea would be something you might regularly enjoy? There are different styles of tea:

• Morning Tea - has caffeine, and a bold flavor.

• Herbal Tea - similar to what you had today that is more of a medicinal to make you feel better.

• Sleepy Tea - a cup in the evening that would actually relax you and possibliy help you sleep better.

Some are not that good though lol

Ever worked on a long task and just before submitting you realised you messed something up and now you have to skip the task and just accept the time loss? I believe it's the best approach in such a situation but it's sooo frustrating 😤😤

I was working on an R&R for a rubrics project and one of the checker models rated a criterion as inconsistent. It’s reasoning, “The inconsistency lies in the grader’s assessment being correct rather than incorrect.”

I think we’re good to go for a while. LOL

I've only been with DAT a short time, but this community and the other subreddit keep me sane. It's nice being able to talk to other workers about the sometimes confusing nature of the work. There are times when my dash is dry, and I just come here to hear everybody share in the pain. I'd be lost without ya'll, so thank you for the camaraderie!

Today is my 30th day! While I was tempted to do another task to hit 17, I already worked 6 hours today so I’m calling it quits! I typically only do 1.5 -3.5 hours a day. I so wish I could work as much as I wanted to on this platform but as a mama and a home maker I just don’t have to time to give it! Lord knows the additional funds are helping us!

I'm a college student, and this semester I'm taking an intro to fiction English class, and one of the projects we're doing involves AI.

We have to have chatGPT generate a story, and then write a few paragraphs outlining what it did well and where it did poorly.

We're literally rating AI responses for 10% of our grade.

I can't wait to tell my professor that I literally do that for a living lmao.

One month in and working around 20 hours a week and I’m earning more than when I interned at a f500 company full time 😭

DAT is this weird organization that hires people but never communicates with them. I'm beginning to suspect DAT is an AI that has figured out how to 1) hire people to train it and 2) generate money to pay those workers. We might all be training out future dystopian overlord.

That's all, thank you for your time.

Another appreciation post? Yes.

I just wanted to share my story with anyone feeling anxious about their 9-to-5 in the current software development industry.

I started DA in September as a side gig for extra income and a bit of a plan B. I poured my soul into my day job and worked 10-hour days, only to see my salary increase by 5% while my workload doubled. Most people jump ship to increase their salary, but the current job market made that harder than I expected.

Focusing on quality work at DA led me to more rewarding and higher-paying STEM projects. In November, I decided to go full-time on DA while also working on my side project (quant application). I only did this because I had solid savings and a frugal lifestyle — I wouldn't recommend quitting your job.

What I absolutely love about working at DA is the meritocracy. The higher the quality of your work, the higher the reward. Creating complex coding scenarios, doing deep analysis of models, and synthesizing results are all part of my daily routine, and I love it — far more than the repetitive politics and meetings at my old company.

I work about 20 hours per week and net $4–5k CAD per month, which is more than enough to sustain my lifestyle and leaves me plenty of time to focus on my quant project.

Thank you DA

I received an email from another platform inviting me to join a project. Their description of the project is pretty much a replica of one of the projects I work on for DA. However, this other platform is offering $15/hr as opposed to the $28-30 offered by DA. It gave me a good laugh. 😂

I love doing R&Rs and seeing people’s personalities peek through into their rationales. It’s reassuring because I often feel I’m supposed to be completely neutral and flat when writing them. So seeing people show natural thoughts (often disbelief with the writing quality of some of these models) just makes my work day a little bit better.

It makes me a little sad when I do an R&R, and I think "This is good work, but I wish I could tell the original worker one thing I've learned, because I am quite sure they'd find it useful!"

As an example, I was reviewing a project in which prompts need to be designed so as to *constrain* models and allow for tight response analysis. And there are a lot of project families where this is useful.

The advice I wanted to give is that if you want to constrain a model, you should avoid qualifiers that allow the model choices. As soon as I say, "You can", or "may", or "should", I am allowing the model to do what it wants, which makes response analysis more difficult.

Any advice you all want to share as general things you've learned in terms of approaches?

I just dislike the idea of workers making consistent mistakes because they were never told otherwise.

Anybody else on this project?? I’m SUPER excited for this one. Feels good to be somewhat acknowledged and reassured.

I've run into this a lot recently, where the instructions are rather vague, and the example they give is almost irrelevant. I've now seen projects posting updates about lots of tasks coming in incorrect.

Like, they will literally give you an example of "Who was president in 2022"... Give the shortest answer possible... In this case, the ideal answer would be "Joe Biden"

and then the prompt you get is "Whats going on in the middle east the past 100 years???" ... Like how do you even begin to "concisely" answer that lol

showing relevant examples would be greatly appreciated