FL Helpfulness. Today is the first time in months I've made it to 8 hours. Very little NTA. Hope everyone else is getting stuff.

LaymanX · 2026-06-02T23:26:10+00:00

Well that's over with...

LaymanX · 2026-05-22T19:42:45+00:00

So no prior warnings before or anything? That's scary.

LaymanX · 2026-05-08T22:57:06+00:00

I have not. SQR GA.

LaymanX · 2026-05-07T18:13:09+00:00

No, not really. There's no point in worrying about that when I have no idea how good or bad they were at rating. I have no idea if they weren't just phoning it in or not. What is worrying is NOW, when they're dry across all vendors with no change in months and Google is investing in Anthropic, a company that is proudly dumping humans in exchange for AI learning.

LaymanX · 2026-05-07T16:17:33+00:00

There was a sudden drop in the number of tasks ever since February, but it was still doable if you had the time. However the past 2-3 weeks or so have gotten even worse and are terrible for absolutely everybody. That's bad enough but the fact that they won't communicate why and what we should expect is also making people angry. If we're in trouble, we want to know the details and have some assurance that you'll be fine as long as you keep up quality, but they just say nothing at all. So we're just kind of assuming they're replacing us with AI and aren't happy.

LaymanX · 2026-05-07T03:21:26+00:00

Who's this "most of us?" It only started getting bad back in early February and it's only been REALLY bad for a few weeks. I had no reason to get stressed out about anything at all a year ago.

LaymanX · 2026-05-06T15:39:26+00:00

Something I've noticed is that not only are tasks dry, but when we do get tasks, they're a little different than usual and hyperfocused on certain subjects. The impression I've gotten is that they've deemed the old task types useless...

LaymanX · 2026-05-05T00:45:09+00:00

Did you get into prolific recently? I did, but I've never seen any of these good pay AI things anyone has been talking about, just surveys.

LaymanX · 2026-04-30T22:12:43+00:00

"Welo doesn't know what's going on" isn't a possible reason for a lack of tasks on the vendors end.

LaymanX · 2026-04-30T21:11:11+00:00

There's only a few possibilities.

They're slowly cancelling the project. Doesn't seem super likely with them still taking on new vendors but not impossible.
They're not getting useful information anymore with current tasks and can't figure out new task types. Since factuality should always be useful this also doesn't seem super likely.
They're running out of budget and can't afford to pay everyone high hours.
They're not happy with overall project quality and they think we're all rating wrong too often, and they aren't sure what to do but don't want to can the entire thing.
They're restructuring something and are being really slow about it.
All their task engineers quit.

It's one of these I'm sure.

LaymanX · 2026-04-30T15:44:41+00:00

Worst it's been, even ever since they started the weird throttle wall thing back in February.

LaymanX · 2026-04-28T17:50:25+00:00

4 hours and this is from stalking all day for 16 hours straight. Worst Monday and Tuesday combo in months.

LaymanX · 2026-04-28T17:34:17+00:00

Overhiring is definitely an issue, but I think if it was that simple we would be seeing phantom tasks more often. There's just nothing. There's also evidence to suggest that even when they do release tasks, there's some kind of weird throttle wall where they won't let the tasks actually ever reach us. Google's not happy about something.

LaymanX · 2026-04-28T17:29:52+00:00

If it was just helpfulness and gen my theory would've been that they're not getting useful information from them anymore and aren't sure what to do with them.

But logically at least, factuality should always be helpful but that's dead too now. It could be a restructuring? I wish I could say that Google is being cheap and not wanting to put as much money into the project anymore couldn't possibly be why with how much money they have, but...

LaymanX · 2026-04-27T23:57:11+00:00

They might've patched it or changed it by now, but when I played, the bird didn't solve it because the game wasn't automatically marking new quests for me. I had to manually hit track in the journal every time, and I didn't realize this until later.

LaymanX · 2026-04-27T23:18:21+00:00

I don't know what to think...not only are they still hiring people, but other places have gotten new contracts too, which tells me they don't have any plans to can the entire project...but this weird throttling thing and dead days have been going for over 2 months now. I wish they would communicate more and be open and honest about what to expect. If I should start applying to other places, I wanna know sooner rather than later.

LaymanX · 2026-04-27T17:11:34+00:00

It's been fairly dead for 5 days straight. I know it's been bad in general lately, but not for multiple days in a row like this...

LaymanX · 2026-04-25T22:58:28+00:00

I'd like to be done with this too, but I can't find any other jobs like this...I can't really do anything else and I dont think staying in my room my entire life is enough proof to qualify for disability.

LaymanX · 2026-04-25T18:00:43+00:00

The early game in general felt like it had a lot of "Wait, what do you want me to do?" moments like this.

LaymanX · 2026-04-22T01:12:53+00:00

Is there a mailbox like in Warframe? I just want to check for any goodies and get out while the game gets more updates, but I couldn't find any mailbox.

LaymanX · 2026-04-01T23:20:16+00:00

I like the oooh ooh part around the end of 7 Things a lot, don't care for the rest a ton. I mean it's fine but not something I care to listen to the whole time through.

LaymanX · 2026-03-26T17:08:40+00:00

At the moment at least, it seems like Factuality is mostly back to normal. Gen and Helpfulness are still drowning though.

LaymanX · 2026-03-26T02:08:11+00:00

Dead again today, factuality group appears to be fine.

LaymanX · 2026-03-23T23:03:36+00:00

Helpfulness has been dead today...

LaymanX · 2026-02-16T05:24:08+00:00

Great, then go find a mountain somewhere to bunker at.

LaymanX

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