The people’s record · a small pressBuilt from what people wrote in public

What really worked.Evidence, not advice
The jacket of Getting Paid to Train AI

Book 06

5,120 people who signed up to the platforms that pay for AI training work said how long they waited to be let in, what the work paid when it came, and what happened after that.

Each of them wrote it down in public, in one of 5 communities, most of them answering a stranger who had asked. The book reads all of it at once. What comes out is not the list you have been given.

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Cover: The jacket
CoverThe jacket
Contents: The chapters
ContentsThe chapters
Chapter 1: What people wrote down before anyone asked
Chapter 1What people wrote down before anyone asked
Chapter 2: The wait before anything paid
Chapter 2The wait before anything paid
Chapter 3: What people did while the dashboard stayed empty
Chapter 3What people did while the dashboard stayed empty
Chapter 4: What the first work actually paid
Chapter 4What the first work actually paid
Chapter 5: Getting in was not the job
Chapter 5Getting in was not the job
Chapter 6: Approved and then left with nothing
Chapter 6Approved and then left with nothing
Chapter 7: It depends on what you applied for
Chapter 7It depends on what you applied for
Chapter 8: How to decide without a review site
Chapter 8How to decide without a review site
Back cover: The back
Back coverThe back

The chapters

8 chapters · 53 pages

  1. 01What people wrote down before anyone asked
  2. 02The wait before anything paid
  3. 03What people did while the dashboard stayed empty
  4. 04What the first work actually paid
  5. 05Getting in was not the job
  6. 06Approved and then left with nothing
  7. 07It depends on what you applied for
  8. 08How to decide without a review site

The findings

2 qualifications

before there was paid work on the dashboard, taking the middle of the 572 people who counted them. The range runs from 1 to 107.

24%

of everyone here said what they actually DID, not just what happened to them. That is 1213 of them, and it is the question most people never got round to answering.

7 kinds of work

had enough people saying both which kind of work they applied for and what happened after. The answer is not the same for each, which is what most readers came here to find out. Too few said it in pictures and video to report anything there.

Not a method.

No method, no framework, no seven steps. It will not tell you what to do on Tuesday. It says what people wrote happened, which is not always what happened, and the chapter on where the evidence stops being useful is printed in the same size type as everything else.

The small print

People
Public posts, not a survey
Read on
28 July 2026
Left out
108 more posts, read and set aside
Length
7,053 words over 53 pages
Quoting
13 quotations, 3.5% of the text
Price
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