#appen

[ebizmarket]

Appen Tasks: Is live or is it Memorex?

Could everyone who is currently doing micro-tasks on Appen please raise their hand? :) 🤚

[sloppypears-ash-sg]

Letters To Match Fanchildren Pt 2

Finally, I made more of them!

Got various inspirations for many fanchildren. (Ship inspo: character.ai)

yay rarepairs 🌟🎶

Assets!

[hustlealley]

Discover AI Chat Bot Training Jobs on Leading Remote Work Platforms

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[howandreviews]

My Experience Working at Appen

Appen

Appen, an internationally acclaimed technology services company, has been at the forefront of providing high-quality training data, annotation, and linguistic services since its inception in 1996. The company has emerged as a significant player in the field of data annotation and machine learning services. From personal experience, Appen offers an excellent platform for individuals seeking to work remotely, providing an array of work-from-home jobs. 

Independent Contractor

As an independent contractor, I’ve been involved in numerous projects, ranging from search engine evaluation to micro tasks and voice projects. If you don’t succeed in one project, Appen provides a plethora of options, ensuring that there’s always an opportunity to explore.

The working hours at Appen vary significantly depending on factors like the project you’re working on, your availability, and workload requirements. There might be requirements to work a specific number of hours per week, while at other times, your workload would depend solely on your availability. My projects ranged from 1 to 4 hours, and occasionally, I managed to work up to 8 hours a day when extra work was available. Therefore, the workload can vary extensively depending on the project.

Flexible Work

One of the significant advantages of working with Appen is the flexibility it offers. As a contractor, you have the freedom to set your own schedules and work at your convenience, provided the project requirements and deadlines are met. In my role as a social media evaluator, I had the luxury of starting my work early and finishing by late morning, offering me ample flexibility. However, it’s essential to note that workload and availability requirements can differ based on the project and may change over time.

Appen pays its contractors competitively, with rates varying based on factors like the project, contractor’s location, experience, and skills. According to the company’s website, the hourly rate for some projects ranges from $5 to $30 per hour, while other jobs may pay by task or project. 

The company’s remote jobs are an excellent opportunity for students, stay-at-home parents, retirees, or anyone needing a flexible work schedule that allows them to work from anywhere. However, one must note that consistency of work might not be guaranteed and contracts could be terminated without warning. Therefore, it’s crucial to have a backup plan or side hustles. Despite these caveats, my overall experience working at Appen has been positive, offering a significant learning experience and a considerable degree of flexibility.

Conclusion

Appen offers a valuable platform for individuals seeking flexible, remote work opportunities with a range of projects to choose from. The flexibility extends to both working hours and the freedom to set personal schedules. Although the pay is competitive, the consistency of work can vary and contracts might be terminated without prior notice. Therefore, while Appen presents a significant opportunity, it’s crucial for potential contractors to consider these factors and have backup plans or supplementary income streams in place. 

For a comprehensive understanding of the roles I undertook, as well as an evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages, please visit Lifeafterfiftyish for an in-depth review.

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On weekdays, between homeschooling her two children, Michelle Curtis logs on to her computer to squeeze in a few hours of work. Her screen flashes with Google Search results, the writings of a Google chatbot, and the outputs of other algorithms, and she has a few minutes to respond to each—judging the usefulness of the blue links she’s been provided, checking the accuracy of an AI’s description of a praying mantis, or deciding which of two chatbot-written birthday poems is better. She never knows what she will have to assess in advance, and for the AI-related tasks, which have formed the bulk of her work since February, she says she has little guidance and not enough time to do a thorough job.

Curtis is an AI rater. She works for the data company Appen, which is subcontracted by Google to evaluate the outputs of the tech giant’s AI products and search algorithm. Countless people do similar work around the world for Google; the ChatGPT-maker, OpenAI; and other tech firms. Their human feedback plays a crucial role in developing chatbots, search engines, social-media feeds, and targeted-advertising systems—the most important parts of the digital economy.

Curtis told me that the job is grueling, underpaid, and poorly defined. Whereas Google has a 176-page guide for search evaluations, the instructions for AI tasks are relatively sparse, she said. For every task she performs that involves rating AI outputs, she is given a few sentences or paragraphs of vague, even convoluted instructions and as little as just a few minutes to fully absorb them before the time allotted to complete the task is up. Unlike a page of Google results, chatbots promise authoritative answers—offering the final, rather than first, step of inquiry, which Curtis said makes her feel a heightened moral responsibility to assess AI responses as accurately as possible. She dreads these timed tasks for the very same reason: “It’s just not humanly possible to do in the amount of time that we’re given.” On Sundays, she works a full eight hours. “Those long days can really wear on you,” she said.

Armughan Ahmad, Appen’s CEO, told me through a spokesperson that the company “complies with minimum wages” and is investing in improved training and benefits for its workers; a Google spokesperson said Appen is solely responsible for raters’ working conditions and job training. For Google to mention these people at all is notable. Despite their importance to the generative-AI boom and tech economy more generally, these workers are almost never referenced in tech companies’ prophecies about the ascendance of intelligent machines. AI moguls describe their products as forces akin to electricity or nuclear fission, like facts of nature waiting to be discovered, and speak of “maximally curious” machines that learn and grow on their own, like children. The human side of sculpting algorithms tends to be relegated to opaque descriptions of “human annotations” and “quality tests,” evacuated of the time and energy powering those annotations.

The tech industry has a history of veiling the difficult, exploitative, and sometimes dangerous work needed to clean up its platforms and programs. But as AI rapidly infiltrates our daily lives, tensions between tech companies framing their software as self-propelling and the AI raters and other people actually pushing those products along have started to surface. In 2021, Appen raters began organizing with the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America to push for greater recognition and compensation; Curtis joined its ranks last year. At the center of the fight is a big question: In the coming era of AI, can the people doing the tech industry’s grunt work ever be seen and treated not as tireless machines but simply as what they are—human?

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[cogmented]

cogmented can you draw devious duo i miss them a lot

love them.. i miss d6

[eluminium]

svensk sommar

[just-a-mod]

Happy Holidays Ya'll

drew @honeycomb-cacube's Cherry for them holidays

feat. @sister-says-go's Di in the background, overheating

merry chrisms =w=

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

What would poppy do when she was given all rights to playtime co. if so what will she turn the building into?

Poppy only receives all the rights to PlayCo. after Angel inevitably passes away. She keeps the building intact, maintaining it as a memorial site, as it was agreed by all the toys. She keeps licensing products and taking care of the brand, wanting to bring smiles to children all around the world, just like her parents.

[sloppypears-ash-sg]

More Letters To Match Pairs!

Pencehole (Black Hole/BH x Pencil), Rublock (Ruby x Blocky), Appen (II Apple x Pen), and...

surprisingly, Stapoldy is here (prefer that ship name over Stoldy. Although Stoldy is an okay name).

Inspo: character.ai Salt and Pepper

[iridescent-glitch]

Välkommen till "hinner hon rösta innan slussen stänger"

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

i am being niceys. please give me a round of applause

[nyaskitten]

Rlly wanted to draw my wife with his one tit out.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Slade - I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen

[cooali]

ik ben gewoon oprecht sprakeloos?? de kans dat hier een regering uit komt die goed samen gaat werken is klein dus you know ik hou hoop MAAR dat oprecht zoveel mensen op de pvv hebben gestemd??? kan het echt totaal niet bevatten eigenlijk