r/outlier_ai

Did anyone onboard? Just curious as I seem to have been booted out of the onboarding for what appears to be a correct response. Same old outlier.

Hi Reddit! I was working on Aether, then this project popped up on my dashboard as the 1st queue. It has about 6-7 hours of onboarding, super long. Did anyone go through this process? I cannot find any information on Reddit about this project😵‍💫 Thank you.

I am new to outlier and I got an invitation through Upwork.After completing all of the basic task I went to a project onboarding called aether.Before onboarding there was some assessment task ,I completed every task.But after submitting the final assessment task they send me an email that told me that I got permanently ban from outlier.

Now what should I do??

Is there anyone who can help me??

Is anyone happy working for outlier? Is it worth my time to try and make a few dollars?

As we all know, Aether is doing a mass project reallocation right now, so most people are losing access to S2S and are given different tasks. Problem about these new tasks is the amount of "smaller tasks" (the ones you actually get to work on) inside them are very limited and usually runs out in only a few hours, which was never an issue for me back when I still had access to S2S. It seems that they refill these tasks on a daily basis, but I have no concrete data to write down a pattern or to pinpoint the exact refill time to catch more available tasks, and I also don't have much free time to spend refreshing the dashboard again and again either. Could everyone comment the time you find your tasks refilled so we can all form a good idea about when to work? I noticed they usually update new tasks at around 3 AM in my locale, but it could vary. Thank you for your information.

Could someone please help me. This morning, I completed my verification, screening and was immediately assigned to aether. While completing my profile, I accidentally linked my husband's linkedin instead of mine. I disconnected the link and when trying to connect mine, It automatically re-linked my husband's linkedin. I believe this mistake happened when they rerouted to linkedin and I connected without checking whose account was logged in. He has also newly created his account but I was logged into my account and only mistakenly linked mine to his linkedin. I then got notice that my account is under review and to provide additional information which I have, including the explanation on the linkedin mishap, and provided my linkedin profile. Is there anything else I can do to have this issue resolved and get my account active? Thanks

Hello I just wanna ask if any other person here has the same experience with the Aether project being removed from your dashboard. At first it says that I'm ineligible but now as I check the project it's labelled as unavailable. What do you think I should do?

Hi there, I got an email stating “You’re Invited: Personal Finance Project Onboarding Session”. Does this mean I still be added to a project? I will be joining an onboarding call tomorrow.

I've been with Outlier for two years and during that time have never had any projects from them. I onboarded for Aether right before it ended last time, was invited back only to find the same thing happened, and have never seen any other opportunities.

Today I got an email asking me to verify if I'm using an iOS or Android device, for future projects. The irony of sending an email asking people to verify if they are using an iOS or Android device, then the page you send them to needs to be viewed on a laptop or desktop PC. You would think for a technology company you would be better!!!

As a Medical Professional, which platform is more likely to onboard me on a project?

I haven't worked on Aether Evals since before they transitioned to the Outlier timer. My account is still active and everything but I know the tasks/assessments have changed a lot in the meantime and I don't want to get banned for something dumb.

What do I need to know about the recent updates to keep myself in the clear? Any tricks in the assessments or common errors in the tasks?

Is anyone working with aether lately, I have been offline since 4-5 days and now I see many changes like accessing directly through MM dashboard and visual coding tasks etc. Can anyone explain me what exactly is going on?

Hello! I currently have 2 projects on my queue that I like (Aether and another one), is it possible to task on both projects and just change my project depending on which one I wanna work on at the moment?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice from other Outlier contributors.
My Outlier account was suddenly deactivated while I was taking the Aether screening test. The reason given was related to a copy/paste issue.
During the screening, I had to listen to audio and type the transcription. The text box provided for the transcription was extremely small, which made it difficult for me to work comfortably. Because of that, I wrote my transcription in Notepad first and then copied/pasted the transcription into the provided textbox.
I did not use copy/paste to obtain answers, bypass the test, or use someone else’s work. I was simply using Notepad to prepare the transcription because the actual textbox was difficult to work with.
What is frustrating is that my account was deactivated without, as far as I understand, anyone actually reviewing the context of what happened. I have a 4+ rating and have spent a significant amount of time contributing to Outlier, so getting suddenly deactivated over something like this is extremely disappointing.
I completely understand that Outlier needs to have rules against cheating or unauthorized assistance. But in this situation, I feel the copy/paste activity was misunderstood. I was only transferring my own transcription from Notepad into the textbox.
I have already tried to explain this through the appropriate channels, and I’m hoping someone here might know:
● Has anyone experienced a similar deactivation?
● Is there a way to request a manual review/appeal of the account?
● Can the Aether screening session be reviewed to verify that I was actually transcribing the audio myself?
I genuinely enjoyed contributing on Outlier and would really appreciate any advice from people who have dealt with a similar situation.

I just started yesterday, and have worked about 6 hours so far. I feel a bit stressed moving forward without knowing how I'm doing. I'm working on the Aether project, having conversations with two different models and evaluating the results. I just attended the webinar today and it was helpful, but also overwhelming.

I honestly don’t know what else to do anymore. I joined Outlier because I was simply looking for an honest way to earn extra income. I worked hard, spent LOT of hours on tasks, and genuinely gave it my best.

Now my account has been permanently deactivated, and it hurts knowing that all those hours of hard work might mean nothing.

I’m not asking for anything for free. I just wanted to work, earn something for my family, and have a decent side income. It’s heartbreaking to put so much effort into something, only to suddenly lose access and feel like you’re being treated as if you did something wrong.

I feel completely scammed and honestly devastated. Is there any way to recover the money from the work I already completed, even if my account is gone?

Has anyone here actually been through this and managed to get their unpaid earnings?

1.5 years of high quality work, promoted to reviewer (and senior reviewer) on both of my active language projects, Oracle status for half my time on Outlier.

After 3 months of tumbleweeds, I decided to give Aether a try, even though I've heard nothing but bad things about it. Lo and behold, after editing the transcript meticulously with not a whit of cheating, I was met with an empty dashboard and a lost community access.

Support chatbot has claimed - 2 minutes after my ban - that there has ben a thorough two level review by a human, which is simply impossible, considering I got banned right as I pressed "Submit".

The most annoying thing is the fact that I lost my Oracle status due to inactivity exactly a week before getting banned, so now support is back to sending canned answers with no regard to me.

I have asked a QM from my previous project to contact admins on my behalf, which she very kindly did. Still, I am not feeling very hopeful.

Let this be a lesson for everyone to NOT dip your toes into Aether if you have any other projects on the horizon. And that we are but worker ants to these platforms, and they can discard us at any time with 0 regard for our track record of good, honest work.

There is something terribly wrong with the reviewers. They'd see one minor thing and immediately book you a 1/5. Not even a constructive 2-3/5.

How to dispute bad reviews?

After getting offboarded from Aether 3 weeks ago (I assumed the project was done), I received an unexpected email from them.

​Has anyone here tried this link? I want to know what’s inside, what they actually do with your device, and why they need to check it in the first place. Is it really necessary?

​Lol, I honestly don't trust Outlier these days, even though I haven't had any issues with payments.

Hi! I got an email saying I was matched and shortlisted on a project and that I could start tasking, but when I logged into my account there are no tasks available, is this normal? I also cannot see the project course or the project's thread on the my community account