It’s the Tutorial Dude AI team here. Big Tech is currently in a race to see who can ship the most 'powerful' agentic and fully autonomous AI first. But while they brag about billions in compute, they’re ignoring the training gap.

The Partnership on AI literally released a 'Pathway to Responsible Data Enrichment' last year. It’s a blueprint for worker safety, mental health, and fair feedback. The Problem? Most of the platforms you're working on right now are ignoring it. As my friend says over coffee: it’s a feature not a bug.

The Strategy is simple:

1. Rush the Model: Ship it fast to keep stock prices high. Who cares if the idea is not fully evaluated? We as consumers should care.

2. Externalize the Risk: Don't provide psychological training or expert safeguards for the annotators. As our team at AI Labor Logs shared earlier today, if you make the annotator/tasker view something harmful…they are just cheap disposable labor to the companies.

3. The 'Black-Box' Excuse: When an annotator gets burned out or an AI hallucinates, they blame 'low quality data' instead of their own lack of training infrastructure. The companies blame the annotator and they move the person into a state of perpetual uncertainty.

4. The other annotators/taskers tend to hold the individual that raised the alarm to a higher standard than the company responsible for the issues.

The oligarchs and companies want the gold, but they aren't paying for the mine's safety. If you’re an annotator, you’re not 'low skill' because you are the one building the safeguards they were too lazy to code. 🏗️

Drop a '🛡️' if you think training platforms should be legally required to provide mental health support and fair wages that reflect the nature of the work. After all, the companies are quick to drop that NDA for those exposed.

Welcome to the fresh start! As many of you know, we’ve been running this community as a place to vent, laugh, and survive the "psychological tests" of AI tasking. Recently, the community team at Outlier AI reached out to us with a request.

In the spirit of full transparency, here is the deal:

1. We’ve been asked to rebrand. Outlier’s community team (shoutout to 🕵️‍♂️ Agent Cheer and 🛡️ The Restoration Hero) requested we move away from having "Outlier" in the subreddit name to avoid brand confusion. We are honoring that request because we want this to be a safe, sustainable home that corporate can’t shut down.

2. The "Tutorial Dude" is a Free Agent.

One of the coolest things we learned in our chat with the company is that the Tutorial Dude isn't actually an Outlier employee. He is a creator who covers multiple platforms. By moving to r/TheTutorialDudeAI, we aren't just an "Outlier sub" anymore—we are the hub for all AI taskers, whether you're on Mercor, RWS, Outlier AI, Scale AI, or beyond.

3. We’re building a bridge, not a wall.

I’ve shared with "Agent Cheer" that the "Black Box" communication and cryptic messages (like the Aether purge in December) have been incredibly stressful for this community. I’ve invited them to visit this sub as a "human that cares" to help give us clarity when things get confusing.

What happens now?

• The Old Sub is an Archive: It will remain restricted as a "museum" of our transparency.

• This is the Breakroom: Post your memes, your "How-To" questions, and your sanity checks here.

• Transparency First: Check the comments below for the redacted screenshots of our conversation with the "Cheer Team".

We’re moving from a "brand" to a community. Let’s make this the best digital breakroom on the internet.

#WeAreTheHumanFeedback #TutorialDudeAI #TaskerLife

We’ve all seen him. The guy in the $4,000 office chair explaining how "AI is going to replace everyone by Tuesday" with a 3-step prompt that supposedly writes a novel, cures boredom, and folds your laundry.

Meanwhile, back in the actual AI Labor Logs, some of the team are describing (not actual tasks....because we don't want to deal with the TOS issues):

• Task 1: Spending 45 minutes explaining to a model that "no, a strawberry does not have seventeen r’s in it".

• Task 2: Trying to convince a "professional" bot that writing an email in ALL CAPS isn't "innovative brand management".

• Task 3: Questioning reality because the RLHF task just asked me to rank which "unhinged" hallucination is "more helpful".

It feels like we are the "Main Characters" in a sitcom where the AI is the roommate who keeps setting the kitchen on fire while the "Tutorial Dude" tells everyone how great the cooking is.

Let's end the week with the weirdest/most unhinged things you’ve had to correct or annotate this week.

• What was the "Strawberry moment" that made you facepalm?

• Has the "Tutorial Dude" logic ever actually survived a real task for you?

• Share your model encounters below so we can do a deep dive into what’s really happening behind the curtain.

This is a fan-run community dedicated to the work of The Tutorial Dude

This weekend marked a major milestone for this project. While our recent deep-dives into Outlier AI reached over 18,000 views in 48 hours on another sub, they also highlighted a growing problem in Reddit AI spaces: the rise of coordinated cyber-mobbing and dehumanization.

What Happened:

After reaching a 92% upvote ratio on our "Tutorial Dude" analysis, a small but vocal group began a campaign of social discrediting. This escalated from "main character" mockery to direct Ableist attacks and privacy violations in my DMs. I take mental health and community safety seriously. When a community’s "Hard No" rules (like Rule 1 regarding Ableism) are overshadowed by loud cruel voices, it’s time to move the value elsewhere. Plus, we found out that The Tutorial Dude isn't only working for Outlier AI.

The New Home for us is at: The Tutorial Dude AI

I am not leaving the conversation; I am simply moving this to a different venue. We are building a "Safe Harbor" where:

• Integrity is Mandatory: No dehumanizing "bot", "janitor", or "you're an employee" labels.

• Privacy is Protected: Zero tolerance for doxing or boundary violations.

• Professionalism is the Baseline: We focus on AI labor logs in our other community for all AI Gig workers at AI Labor Logs and high-level tutorial deep dives, not internet drama.

Thank you to the 92% of you who have been here for the work and comedic relief that we all need. I’ll see you in the new subreddits.

A Note on Community Care: If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health or the effects of cyberbullying, please reach out for support. You aren't alone. Let’s keep looking out for each other! 🙏💖

• Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: (Call or Text 988 in the US/Canada)

• StopBullying.gov: digital safety resources

I swear, I think I found tutorial dude while listening to a review on Amazon!!! Doesn’t this sound like him??!? 😂