What the work actually involves

You watch or view a piece of visual media — often only a few seconds of video, or a single frame — and produce a structured description of what is in it. That means naming the subjects and setting, tracking what happens across time, noting scene cuts and camera movement, and labelling harder-to-pin qualities like mood, lighting and spatial relationships between objects. A second strand of the work is reviewing AI-generated captions and descriptions: deciding whether the model got the action right, whether its ordering of events matches the clip, and whether its output follows the required structure.

The defining constraint is the guideline document. Multimodal datasets are only useful if two annotators looking at the same clip produce compatible labels, so the job is less about creative description than about applying someone else's taxonomy faithfully — including when the clip is ambiguous and the guideline doesn't quite cover it. Guidelines change mid-project; project leads issue clarifications and you are expected to absorb them and go back over prior conventions.

What the screen looks for

  • Strong English reading and writing — descriptions must be precise, not merely grammatical.
  • Evidence you can follow nuanced written instructions without improvising, and that you flag edge cases rather than guess silently.
  • Comfort distinguishing what is visible from what you infer: a frequent failure mode is annotators writing that someone is "angry" or "leaving for work" when the frame supports neither.
  • Prior annotation experience is a plus, not a gate. Turing states it is preferred but not necessary.

Logistics

Fully remote contractor assignment — no medical or paid leave. The listing sets 4 hours per day and 20 hours per week, with 4 hours overlapping PST, and notes the final requirement is confirmed closer to onboarding. You supply your own desktop or laptop and a stable internet connection; video work is bandwidth-hungry, so this matters more than it does on text projects. Contract extension is described as performance- and project-dependent. No pay band is published in this listing.