Outlier (Scale AI) program · also searched as Project Aether, Outlier Aether
Outlier (Scale AI) Aether
Aether is a project on Outlier, Scale AI's contributor platform. Outlier's own blog called it one of its most active projects in November 2025, with thousands of tasks a day in video and image evaluation. Third-party site aitrainer.work describes it as generalist work whose tasks run in a tool called MultiMango.
What participants do
Per Outlier (November 2025), contributors assess short video clips or screenshots and label features that help improve AI models. Worker videos from 2026 describe comparing AI-generated videos and critiquing images, captioning first-person video, and an audio and video screening for an i18n track.
How people get in
Third-party site aitrainer.work says Aether appears in your Outlier queue after Outlier's general onboarding, followed by an automatically graded Aether onboarding that usually cannot be retaken if failed. Outlier's November 2025 post linked a sign-up for the project.
What it pays
Outlier has published no Aether rate. Its blog quoted a contributor citing a $100 incentive for 20 hours and announced a $20,000 Aether prize raffle winner in December 2025. Third-party sites: aitrainer.work says workers report $5 to $25 an hour depending on country, and Breaking Even says Aether paid at the top end of Outlier's hourly rates in 2025.
Status: running
Outlier has posted no status. Third-party sites say it is still running but narrower: aitrainer.work listed it as active on 4 October 2026 after a removal wave from late September, and Breaking Even (updated 3 August 2026) says thousands were cut in early 2026.
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Aether: questions
What is Aether?
Aether is a project on Outlier, Scale AI's contributor platform. Outlier's own blog called it one of its most active projects in November 2025, with thousands of tasks a day in video and image evaluation. Third-party site aitrainer.work describes it as generalist work whose tasks run in a tool called MultiMango.
What do Aether participants do?
Per Outlier (November 2025), contributors assess short video clips or screenshots and label features that help improve AI models. Worker videos from 2026 describe comparing AI-generated videos and critiquing images, captioning first-person video, and an audio and video screening for an i18n track.
How much does Aether pay?
Outlier has published no Aether rate. Its blog quoted a contributor citing a $100 incentive for 20 hours and announced a $20,000 Aether prize raffle winner in December 2025. Third-party sites: aitrainer.work says workers report $5 to $25 an hour depending on country, and Breaking Even says Aether paid at the top end of Outlier's hourly rates in 2025.
How do you get into Aether?
Third-party site aitrainer.work says Aether appears in your Outlier queue after Outlier's general onboarding, followed by an automatically graded Aether onboarding that usually cannot be retaken if failed. Outlier's November 2025 post linked a sign-up for the project.
Is Aether still running?
Outlier has posted no status. Third-party sites say it is still running but narrower: aitrainer.work listed it as active on 4 October 2026 after a removal wave from late September, and Breaking Even (updated 3 August 2026) says thousands were cut in early 2026.
What isn't public
- Outlier does not publish an Aether rate or eligibility rules, and has not said why particular contributors are removed (aitrainer.work reports an official Outlier reply on Reddit in early October 2026 calling the removals a quality control clearance); the pay and status here are third-party or worker reports.
- Outlier's two Aether blog posts no longer load on its live site (the addresses redirect to its blog index), so this record cites archived copies.
- Which AI company the work is for has not been confirmed; Breaking Even reports only worker speculation.
- That the same MultiMango work also runs on other platforms is a third-party claim (aitrainer.work, Breaking Even), not confirmed by Outlier.
- Some YouTube channels offer Aether assessment answers; aitrainer.work reports Outlier accounts blocked over suspected AI use on the Aether assessment.
Sources (8), researched 29 Oct 2026
- Outlier blog (Wayback Machine copy): Get to know Aether, contributors share what makes this project shine (November 11, 2025) (web.archive.org/web/20251206130357/https://outlier.ai/blog/get-to-know-aether-contributors-share-what-makes-this-project-shine)
- Outlier blog (Wayback Machine copy): Meet Justin, Aether's $20,000 Grand Prize winner (December 10, 2025) (web.archive.org/web/20251229150227/https://outlier.ai/blog/meet-justin-aether%E2%80%99s-20-000-grand-prize-winner)
- aitrainer.work (third party): Some workers removed from Outlier's Aether project get reinstated (October 3, 2026) (aitrainer.work/guides/outlier-aether-project-removed)
- aitrainer.work (third party): Outlier AI project names (checked October 4, 2026) (aitrainer.work/platforms/outlier-ai/projects)
- Breaking Even (third party): The Aether project is winding down (March 13, 2026, updated August 3, 2026) (breakingeven.online/blog/outlier-aether-project-what-happened)
- YouTube, Rony OnlineGigs: Outlier Aether Quality Screener (OMNI T2V Elo) Tutorial (June 29, 2026) (youtube.com/watch)
- YouTube, MAKE MONEY WITH AI: Outlier Aether, Hierarchical Egocentric Video Captioning Explained (July 11, 2026) (youtube.com/watch)
- YouTube, Wilson Njau: Outlier Aether-i18n Audio & Video Screening (April 17, 2026) (youtube.com/watch)