this particular gig isn't a scam, but the company it's for is Globalist Scum (tl;dr)
It fits with my experience of Upwork for freelancing (disclaimer, I've not used Upwork as a freelancer, but I *have* used it to hire Virtual Assistants). It's a reputable operation (mostly -- it's also 'free market' so if you don't feel comfortable walking down the Streets of Sim City and asking randos for a gig, best avoided. Keep your children away).
Your luck will entirely vary depending on the proposed 'employer'. In the end, they offered 50 USD/hour for Nuclear Physics expertise (which is better than they pay those poor sods in Zimbabwe and Kenya to do the same work)... and that's just not a tempting wage for anyone in IT who can read articles on Fine Tuning and use Python in anger to do it -- you can get much moar. [1][2]
Anyway, the 'raw data reviews' -- this sounds exactly like someone taking the Mechanical Turk model for doing judgements and trying to goose the wage rates to LLM-craze tier levels.
'Guess the ethnicity of the people in charge now'. You know I know you know.
[1]: LLM pipelines for Data Science:
https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/tutorial-natural-language-processing (Awesome tutorial on NLP)
Deep learning:
https://course.fast.ai/ (you need this now but a lot of the book is free and the parts that aren't are 30 USD from O'Reilly and worth all your pennies)
A LangChain tutorial to build anything with large language models in Python
towardsdatascience.com
[2]: What is RAG?
From the theory of the original academic paper to its Python implementation with OpenAI, Weaviate, and LangChain
towardsdatascience.com
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/rag-101-demystifying-retrieval-augmented-generation-pipelines/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...-ai-and-rag-using-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/
https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/retrieval-augmented-generation/
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White Men:
you want to make 200k a year easy money in the coming Social Credit economy? Read the above
If you can get python to work and have what used to be high school tier English and Maths literacy (and I mean 9th grade, not 12th) you are IN LIKE FLYNN in the Spenglerian world of Werk and Twerk to come.