New "Expert" in town

I got a dm on LinkedIn from an Amazon technical recruiter introducing me to MTurk, specifically saying, "While MTurk hosts a variety of tasks, many are low-paying and don’t require subject matter expertise. However, the project you'll be involved in is designed specifically for experts in your field." So I followed the link to get the "physics" and "expert" quals (since I have a degree in physics, I suppose). Currently waiting for my account to be verified, so I can't see anything in the "Experts" section.

I'm having trouble finding any information about this "Experts" section. Anybody else get into mturk through this kind of recruitment? They said I can expect to make $30-75 per hour, which seems insane according to my cursory research, but maybe times are changing. Just looking for some validation before potentially wasting a bunch of time learning about this.

 

what is the name of the requester who you requested the quals from?

 

I wonder if this could have something to do with preparing for trials. the jury duty type of hits, but expert opinions on the evidence etc.

anyway, being able to look for previous work offered by the requester who issued the qual/who the qual was requested from would help. since requesters can change their user names on mturk, it would also be good to know the requester's mturk ID.

 

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. Basically, this person dmed me on LinkedIn and sent me an invite link which automatically assigned me two quals, "Expert" from Mturk Account (A9KAN1M4WHVL9) and "Physics" from Datagen Team (A2T8SNPTD7ACL5). They were automatically granted when I clicked the link. She called it the External Experts Program on Amazon Mechanical Turk, but I can't find any information when looking it up.

She mentioned that they're looking for physics models in ML to be annotated and labeled. Seems like legit work that would exist, but I've run into too many stupid gigs to be hopeful anymore.

 

Datagen Team is a real requester on mturk. they post batches of hits. very few people seem to have access to them because they are high-paying, but they tend to sit for days. The different batches correspond to different fields of knowledge/education. I don't think they have any hits up right now, but they might. hits can be set up in a way that workers can or can't see them based on what the requester chooses.

also, it can take a few minutes, or even up to an hour iirc, for you to have access to hits after a requester grants a qual.

I think this is legit and the hourly makes sense. you could email the person back to ask when the work will post because there doesn't appear to be any up right now from datagen team.

 

keep in mind as a new worker - that requester appears to have a lot available all at once, then nothing available at all for days/weeks/months. so remember not to count on that income to be reliable. requesters post for years and then one day they disappear without notice and never post again

 

rereading your post, I don't think they meant the EEP is with mturk. I think they mean their own company has an EEP. that company puts their exported work on mturk in the form of hits from their company.

so like company "Data 123" has an EEP, not mturk. I could be wrong. but my tinfoil hat is telling me this was just a miscommunication between you and the recruiter from their company Data 123 or whatever.

 

Very possible. I just completed my first "tasks" today (as they're called in the Experts tab) after doing all the verification stuff this week. $15 per hit, and 45 hits available. My dumb ass only did a few because I had an event to go to, and now they're all gone 6 hours later, but they weren't draining considerably in the approx 1.5 hours I spent on them... These tasks don't seem to mention acceptance rates, so I have no idea whether you can even be denied. We'll see.

Hopefully it's not the super inconsistent crap you mention. If they're reaching out through random LinkedIn dm's, they've gotta have somewhat of a desperation for labor, no? If so it's nbd, I already work 3 other hustles that are somewhat reliable.