A Reddit commenter noted that Chegg "cracked down hard" on users getting paid to solve math problems, suggesting a policy change that made the platform less viable for this type of work.

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        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkOnline/comments/1we042f/comment/p9a5hti/",
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        "author": "three-sense",
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        "excerpt": "You missed your chance to help dumb kids cheat on their homework, because AI does it instantly and for free. Sometimes it's even right!\n\n You can try the tutor thing, but again, AI.",
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        "excerpt": "chegg used to be the go-to for this but they cracked down hard. you're basically competing with people overseas who'll do calc 3 for 50 cents a problem\n\n upwork has some niche stuff if you can stomach the fees and bidding wars. the real money is in knowing a specific software or field, not just raw math. pure computation work is a race to the bottom unfortunately",
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        "author": "Own_Purple_4118",
        "excerpt": "That's not really a thing. Why would someone pay you to do math problems?\n\n Unless you're talking about helping students cheat?",
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        "excerpt": "so you want to be paid to replace a calculator?",
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        "excerpt": "Data Annotation Tech if at a higher level of math maybe.",
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        "excerpt": "Outlier and DataAnnotation are probably closer to what you want, since they pay for checking/solving math prompts instead of tutoring students directly, but thier qualification tests can be annoying.",
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