Terms of use.

ASV (African Silicon Valley) is an independent hub for AI training work. It does three things:

• Profiles third-party platforms that pay people to train and evaluate AI models, such as Outlier, DataAnnotation, micro1 and Mercor.
• Publishes guides on getting accepted, doing the work well, and getting paid.
• Runs ASV Projects, in-house technical work that ASV organizes, reviews and pays for itself.

These terms apply whenever you use ASV, and by using it you accept them. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

ASV does not employ you on any platform, and it is not a recruiter, agent or affiliate of any platform it covers. When you apply to a platform, you deal with that platform directly. Its own terms and policies govern your application, the work you do there, and how and when you are paid.

That also means ASV cannot see or change your account on a platform, influence whether you are accepted, or settle a dispute about tasks, ratings or pay. Those questions belong with the platform’s own support.

Platform names and trademarks belong to their owners. We use them only to identify the platforms we write about.

Apply buttons on ASV use a referral link wherever we have one. If you join a platform through one, that platform may pay ASV a referral bonus. It costs you nothing, it never comes out of your pay, and it has no bearing on what we write about any platform.

How ASV makes money explains exactly how referral links work, and what they never change.

We research every profile and guide with care, list our sources, and date what we publish. But platforms change their pay, requirements, processes and country availability often, and without notice. Treat ASV as a well-researched starting point, and confirm anything that matters to you (above all pay, eligibility and payout methods) on the platform itself before you rely on it.

Where ASV and a platform disagree, the platform is right. Nothing on ASV is financial, legal or tax advice, and we cannot promise that any platform will accept you, offer you work, or pay a particular rate.

Use ASV lawfully and in good faith. In particular, please do not:

• copy or republish substantial parts of the site, or scrape it in a way that puts a strain on it;
• probe, break or work around its security, or try to reach accounts or data that are not yours;
• send fake, automated or misleading traffic through referral links;
• impersonate ASV or a platform, or present yourself as acting for either.

Quoting a short passage with a link back is welcome. We may limit or end access for anyone who misuses the site.

ASV Projects is the part of ASV you sign in to: structured technical tasks that ASV publishes, reviews and pays for directly. If you take part, these rules apply on top of everything above.

Claiming work

Claiming a task is a commitment to attempt it seriously. Several contributors may hold a claim on the same task at once; claiming does not reserve the task for you and does not guarantee your submission will be accepted.

If you cannot finish, release the claim so the slot returns to the queue. Repeatedly abandoning claims may reduce your reliability score and your points.

Your submissions

You must have the right to submit the work you upload. Submitted archives are private to you and the project’s administrators. Submitted versions are kept immutably: you may upload a new version, but earlier ones remain on record.

Review and decisions

Ranking is advisory. An administrator reviews submissions and makes the final decision, and may accept one submission, several, or none. Timing never overrides quality requirements.

Conduct

Do not upload malicious archives, misrepresent completion, or attempt to access another contributor’s work. Accounts that do may be suspended.

Payment

Money owed for accepted work is paid by bank transfer to the account you add in the app. Payments are made by hand, so check your details carefully: money sent to the wrong account is hard to get back.

ASV is provided as is. We work to keep it accurate and available, but we cannot guarantee that it will always be complete, current, uninterrupted or free of errors.

To the fullest extent the law allows, ASV is not liable for any loss that arises from using the site or relying on its content, including decisions you make about applying to, working for or being paid by a third-party platform, and anything that happens on a site we link to. Nothing in these terms limits a liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

We will update these terms as ASV changes. When we do, the date at the top of this page changes with them, and if a change is significant we will say so clearly on the site and, for ASV Projects contributors, in the app. If you keep using ASV after a change, the updated terms apply.

To ask about these terms, email support@asvalley.com.