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1 Labor lawyers are available in BASTROP, Texas, including Cheryl Tremaine Mehl. These lawyers are rated between 3.5/5 to 3.9/5 and 62% provide free consultation.

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Cheryl Tremaine Mehl

West Parmer Lane , Bastrop , Texas 78602

Practice Areas: Civil Rights, Education , Labor , Education

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AI training company says we’re paid hourly, but won’t pay unless a task passes hours of automated checks. Is this legal? | Jul 23, 2026 | Sourced from Reddit
Location: Texas I’ve been working as an independent contractor for an AI training company. The company has projects that they create and invite AI trainers/contributors. For example, a current project is advertised as paying $10 an hour, but the terms say you only get paid if you successfully submit a task (tricking/stumping AI successfuly). Each task also has a 10-hour payment cap. So you can work 10 hours, fail to get the task through their system, and receive nothing. If it takes 30 hours, you still only get paid for 10, if you are even able to submit it at all. For example, one task of mine took 40 hours, and after giving up, I decided to attempt to submit the hours that I had worked but was immediately blocked. I never got paid for the work I did attempting to trick the AI model. This has happened with multiple tasks, and plenty of other people openly discuss their frustration with this work structure in the internal messaging channels. The tasks are extremely difficult. We have to create expert-level coding problems, and then pass a long series of automated checks that the company states/creates themselves. These checks use AI which can hallucinate, overly scrutinize, and often increase in difficulty - I assume they do this to make it harder to be able to submit tasks, give up, and basically do free work validating their AI datasets. What makes it more difficult is that the company continues to add more automated…

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