Recently, I was scrolling through LinkedIn sponsored job postings when I came across this: Straive | Content Reviewer Job. The work seemed easy and the pay range was a range of $25 - $100/h for the hours you'd put in. The process was an easy apply, asking to send in a resume and qualify an AI Interview with their bot Zara.
Ever a curious soul, I clicked apply. It redirected me to an Alignerr webpage ( linked here ) where the first window popped up to accept the Terms and Conditions.
As a Terms and Conditions reading Psychopath, I redirected myself to their Privacy Policy ( linked here ) and boy was I in for a surprise!
As of September 11, 2025, Alignerr's Interview and Release Policy is:
“Alignerr is a global platform for flexible AI training work. Through the Services, you may have the opportunity to participate in an AI-conducted, video-recorded interview (the “Interview”). Among other things, the Interview may help us determine if you are qualified to become a member of the Alignerr Community. You hereby grant us an unlimited, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicenseable through multiple tiers, perpetual right to use, reuse, modify, display, publish and disseminate the Interview and your name, audio, photographic, video, and other likeness of you, as well as any materials you make available for the purposes of the Interview including in each case, any portion thereof (collectively, the “Interview Materials”) for any purpose. Alignerr and its successors, licensees and assigns shall own all right, title and interest in and to the Interview and have your permission to record the Interview, download, broadcast, distribute, exhibit, evaluate, make derivative works of and otherwise fully exploit the Interview, and allow others to do all of the foregoing, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised including, without limitation, via the internet, mobile and handheld devices, all other forms of digital transmission and exhibition throughout the world in perpetuity. All personally identifiable information disclosed during the Interview is subject to the Privacy Policy. You understand and acknowledge that Alignerr, its successors, licensees, and assigns, have the right to edit the Interview Materials, to combine the Interview Material with other information or material, and to use the Interview, the Interview Materials, or any portion thereof to train or improve artificial intelligence technology or any of the Services. You further understand and acknowledge that Alignerr has no obligation to use the Interview Material, nor any other obligation to you whatsoever, including any payment or compensation related to the Interview or the Interview Material, or any obligation whatsoever to admit you to the Alignerr Community, to hire you or to otherwise engage your services. You represent and warrant that you have the full right, power and authority to grant the rights granted herein to the best of your knowledge, any statements made by you during the Interview are true, your participation will not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party and that your participation is completely voluntarily. You hereby release Alignerr, its successors, licensees and assigns from all claims and liability relating to the Interview and the Interview Materials, including without limitation, advertising, marketing, promotion, intellectual property infringement, invasion of privacy or publicity rights, employment or any other reason in connection with the use of the Interview or the Interview Material and waive any claims you may have based on the usage or evaluation of them or works derived from them. The foregoing permission and release are irrevocable, and shall inure to the benefit of the assigns, licensees, partners and legal representatives of Alignerr.”
As a friend, I would advise you to tread with caution.
They take heaps of information from you and distribute it as undermentioned:
TL;DR: if you didn't explicitly read the terms and conditions and went into the job headfirst, your privacy, social security, geolocation, will all be jeopardized because you consented to it!
In this economy of rampant unemployment and thriving scam businesses, we must stay alert and know how to protect our data and ourselves. As the world is shifting over to AI, enabled by humans, we must prioritise what information to share with it and what to withhold.
So, navigate carefully and remember, when the pay seems good and the work seems less, it's a red flag and you should thoroughly read the Terms and Conditions!
