[00:00] $15 to $90 per hour to train AI from home. That's&nbsp; what Mindrift claims you can earn. But is that&nbsp;&nbsp; realistic or just another AI gold rush headline?&nbsp; I signed up. I went through the process. I looked&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:12] at how the work actually works. And in this video,&nbsp; I'm going to show you what you can realistically&nbsp;&nbsp; expect, who this is for, who it's not for,&nbsp; and whether the pay lives up to the promises.
[00:24] In case you don't know, my name is Mikael and on&nbsp; this channel I test and review ways to make money&nbsp;&nbsp; online so you don't waste your time on things that&nbsp; don't deliver. And today we are diving into Mindrift. It's an AI training platform that connects&nbsp; regular people like you with AI companies that&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:38] need real human expertise to improve their models.&nbsp; And in this video, I'll go over exactly how it&nbsp;&nbsp; works and what you can expect so you can find out&nbsp; if this is the right opportunity for you or not.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, let's start by going over the basic&nbsp; of what Mindrift is. And as mentioned,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:53] it's a platform where you can sign up and&nbsp; then you can find work where you help teach AI&nbsp;&nbsp; how professional think and then you can earn&nbsp; money like that from home. And you can see&nbsp;&nbsp; they do say that they for example offer in 15&nbsp; different languages. So that means that you will&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:10] have opportunities in several different languages.&nbsp; and they do work with some quite famous brands&nbsp;&nbsp; according to themselves. These are some of the&nbsp; companies they work with. If you join then some&nbsp;&nbsp; of the work you'll be doing will be for some of&nbsp; these companies in some cases. Also, what's worth&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:27] being aware of is that you can see it says that&nbsp; it's powered by Toka and Toloka has actually been&nbsp;&nbsp; in the data and AI training space since 2014. So,&nbsp; it is an established company and that means Mindrift&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:39] has an established company behind it. But&nbsp; that of course doesn't automatically mean it's&nbsp;&nbsp; the right opportunity for you. So let's look a&nbsp; little bit closer at what type of work you can&nbsp;&nbsp; find here and then of course also go into how&nbsp; to apply, how much you can earn and all this.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:54] So let's look at the type of work you can find&nbsp; here. You can go and just see on the main landing&nbsp;&nbsp; page here some of the work that is available.&nbsp; You can also view all projects to get an&nbsp;&nbsp; full overview. And as you can see it has a&nbsp; decent number of tasks or jobs available.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:10] Some of them pay quite well. You can see the&nbsp; lowest currently I can see is $32 per hour,&nbsp;&nbsp; but it goes all the way up to $90 per hour. If&nbsp; you want to know more about one of the jobs,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:22] you would just need to click and then it will&nbsp; open up a new screen where it explains all the&nbsp;&nbsp; requirements. And of course, you need to make&nbsp; sure that you can actually live up to this. Some&nbsp;&nbsp; of these jobs have very specific requirements.&nbsp; So they are not easy to qualify for and it is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:35] a process where you do need to apply and you&nbsp; need to be approved and all this. We'll talk&nbsp;&nbsp; about in just a second how to actually apply. But&nbsp; overall it offers some quite interesting jobs. But&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:47] as you can also see they are not for everyone. In&nbsp; most cases they do require quite specific skills.&nbsp;&nbsp; But if you do have these skills again this&nbsp; is just what's currently available as of the&nbsp;&nbsp; recording this video. New jobs will regularly be&nbsp; posted. So just because there are none now for you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:02] then it doesn't mean that there can't be. So&nbsp; let's talk a little bit overall about how to apply&nbsp;&nbsp; if you can expect that there might at&nbsp; some point be relevant jobs for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; So what do you need to apply? Well, you of course&nbsp; need to have the right skills for that particular&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:17] job. But the exact skills and qualifications we&nbsp; can see they also say that in the FAQ section&nbsp;&nbsp; it varies for each role and you can just find&nbsp; out as I just showed on the dedicated page&nbsp;&nbsp; for each of them. But they do expect that you&nbsp; have a good understanding of English and clear&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:32] communication skills. So even though you can&nbsp; see that they offer different language roles,&nbsp;&nbsp; then you do need to have a good understanding of&nbsp; English. And whether you need to know about AI&nbsp;&nbsp; or not, well, they say it's good to have a bit of&nbsp; knowledge of large language models. That's LLM. So&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:47] large language models, that's just AI. So if you&nbsp; have used AI, you probably have some knowledge.&nbsp;&nbsp; and they say that it's not as such a requirement&nbsp; but it definitely will help you and it will give&nbsp;&nbsp; you a bigger chance of actually getting hired&nbsp; but overall you don't need to be able to code&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:02] or anything like that unless of course it is a&nbsp; coding role they also explain that very clearly&nbsp;&nbsp; but one thing you also need to be aware of because&nbsp; maybe you sit here now and think like okay maybe&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't have the exact qualifications but I can&nbsp; just use AI to do the work for me once I join. But&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:18] be aware that they're looking for humans to give&nbsp; feedback to improve the AI. So they also say&nbsp;&nbsp; that very clearly that you are not allowed unless&nbsp; it's specifically stated that you are allowed then&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:30] any use of any automated tools including&nbsp; generative AI is strictly forbidden for&nbsp;&nbsp; these tasks. So keep that in mind. You can't just&nbsp; fake it by using AI once you have become a member.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just wanted to clarify that also because I know&nbsp; some people they try to think that AI can do all&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:46] the work for them. That is currently not the case.&nbsp; We'll see how it will be in the future, but that's&nbsp;&nbsp; definitely not how it currently is. Also, be aware&nbsp; that as soon as you join and apply for a job,&nbsp;&nbsp; you need to verify your identity. So, they will&nbsp; ask you for your phone number as soon as you sign&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:02] up. And it even says that they might contact you&nbsp; or use that phone number to contact you regarding&nbsp;&nbsp; the job you are applying for. So, just keep&nbsp; that in mind that you do have to share that if&nbsp;&nbsp; you don't feel comfortable about this, then this&nbsp; is not the right platform for you. Also whether&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:17] you will get training or not that depends on the&nbsp; project. Some projects will give you training if&nbsp;&nbsp; it's needed. Others will just give you basic&nbsp; introductions. All that that depends on the exact&nbsp;&nbsp; task and the exact job. Also it's not necessarily&nbsp; full-time. You can read in the full descriptions.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:32] For example, the one that I showed you before.&nbsp; You can see it's estimated to take 20 hours to&nbsp;&nbsp; complete depending on complexity. So it's not 20&nbsp; hours per week. It's 20 hours in total. Some are&nbsp;&nbsp; longer. So just keep that in mind that exactly&nbsp; how long it is all that that's something you can&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:50] read about for each project. And what I found out&nbsp; when I went through this that you actually have to&nbsp;&nbsp; apply for a specific role because if you just go&nbsp; to the website you might think that you can just&nbsp;&nbsp; apply and sign up on the uh general general sign&nbsp; up button. But when I tried that that was actually&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:07] not allowed. Then it just told me that I needed an&nbsp; invitation. But when I tried for a specific job,&nbsp;&nbsp; then I could sign up and go through the&nbsp; application process. So that's at least how&nbsp;&nbsp; it was for me when I tried. So I just wanted to&nbsp; share that in case you get a little bit confused.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:22] Maybe that is also the case for you. If you have&nbsp; any experiences like this or with the application&nbsp;&nbsp; process yourself also, I would love to hear&nbsp; your experiences in a comment below or if you&nbsp;&nbsp; have any questions, just ask and I make sure&nbsp; to get back to you and reply to all comments.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:37] So, we also just need to talk about how you can&nbsp; get paid because that's of course always important&nbsp;&nbsp; to know. And they say that you'll be paid each&nbsp; month on the 5th and the 20th. So, that's nice.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's every two weeks basically that they process&nbsp; the payment so you don't have to wait too long. I&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:53] always like when that is the case. And the payout&nbsp; options they offer is Payoneer, Mellow, and Papara. I&nbsp;&nbsp; honestly don't know if that's how it's pronounced&nbsp; to be completely honest. Even though I've worked&nbsp;&nbsp; online for many years, 8, 9, 10 years,&nbsp; something like that by now. Payoneer is honestly&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:07] the only one that I've used out of these. I do&nbsp; believe I've heard about this one before, Papara,&nbsp;&nbsp; but I don't know how it's pronounced. But anyways,&nbsp; maybe you know them. These are the payout options&nbsp;&nbsp; they offer. You can get paid in cash. I definitely&nbsp; think Payoneer is a good option. Maybe the others are&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:22] great options as well. I just don't know them to&nbsp; be honest. So overall, I do think Mindrift has&nbsp;&nbsp; some interesting opportunities, but you just need&nbsp; to be aware that it's definitely not for everyone.&nbsp;&nbsp; They are quite specific with the skills required,&nbsp; but if you can find jobs here that are relevant&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:37] for you, then it definitely does pay quite well.&nbsp; But I wouldn't rely on it as the only way to earn&nbsp;&nbsp; some extra money. And if you're interested in&nbsp; different AI training jobs, there are more and&nbsp;&nbsp; more platforms that offer this type of work. So&nbsp; if you join more of them, there's a bigger chance&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:51] that you can find different tasks. And some of&nbsp; them even just have small tasks that you can just&nbsp;&nbsp; join and start with right away. And others it&nbsp; takes a little bit more effort, but the earning&nbsp;&nbsp; potential is also bigger. So I do have a list&nbsp; on my website of the best AI training jobs that&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:03] I have come across the platforms that offer that.&nbsp; So I'll leave a link to that below. And if you're&nbsp;&nbsp; just in general interested in side hustles uh&nbsp; online to earn some extra money in different ways,&nbsp;&nbsp; then I also do have a list of more than 20&nbsp; different online side hustles on my website.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:17] I will leave a link to that below so you can&nbsp; go and check that out also. But no matter what,&nbsp;&nbsp; I hope this video helped you. And if it did, make&nbsp; sure to hit the like button and don't forget to&nbsp;&nbsp; time I release your video with tips and tricks&nbsp; about different ways to make money online. [music]