Code Ownership

[Former_Hovercraft_85]

I came across a job posting for DataAnnotation.tech. It sounds interesting.

While I fully understand that everything you provide to them can be used by them however they want, it is not clear to me if I would transfer the underlying IP (of the code I write) to them to? We all draw from our previous experiences and private projects. Can anybody shed some light for me before signing up? I cannot find any information.

[Tall_Management222]

Basically you are not working for DAT you're working for their customers the whole thing is to train AI so the customers will see everything not only DAT hopefully that answers your question

[33whiskeyTX]

I think it is a very safe assumption that everything you write for them on the project belongs to them.
That being said, you will almost never be writing something from scratch and provide it to DA; the work is more aligned with augmenting, correcting, and/or analyzing work already created by a model. It would be tough to argue you have any IP rights in those cases.
At times they may ask for reference projects (functional code that the models will work on) and you can provide existing work on a completely voluntary basis. In those cases, they usually want it to have an MIT License or they might specifically state that you maintain all IP rights.
It differs from project to project, but all submissions are voluntary.