This is not it...
Like many of you, I had high hopes for this company. I referred hundreds (and I do mean HUNDREDS) of people to them. At first, they seemed nice, professional, and willing to go the extra mile for the first wave of experts they onboarded. That changed fast.
The founders are extremely rude. Ask any kind of question and be ready to be treated like the dumbest person on the planet. But if you give it back to them, suddenly it's "stop disrespecting leadership." How about you stop disrespecting your experts? AQ is way too new to be treating their talent like this. They are not Mercor or Outlier, and they can't get away with it. If you want QUALITY experts, maybe stop being dicks?
And let's talk about their new AI-graded test for one of their projects. They're using GPTZero to flag AI-generated writing. The problem? GPTZero is not reliable. I was a lead on another platform that used GPTZero for the exact same purpose, and it falsely flagged about 95% of responses as AI-generated, even though we knew it wasn't because the exam was proctored. You can paste in published books from the late 1900s and GPTZero will call them AI-generated.
Their response when people, including highly educated PhD candidates, failed because GPTZero spat out "99.9% AI usage"? They basically insinuated that if you failed the GPTZero check, you were using AI. No ifs, ands, or buts, because "others have passed, so that means without a shadow of a doubt you're a liar and using AI." Or, you know, maybe we humans TRAINED the AI, so it's flagging actual human language and proper grammar.
This place sucks. Get out if you can.