You are "selling" your services of posting reviews to Amazon Vine in exchange for the items you receive for free. These items have value, so the value of those items are your pay. Whether or not you are selling something does not determine whether or not it is self-employment or a hobby. It comes down to your actions and intentions.
Since you are not doing this with the intention of earning a profit, then it would be considered a hobby and you could report this as hobby income instead of self-employment income. To do this, after entering your 1099-NEC you can continue through and select, this is not money earned an an employee or self-employed individual, it is from a sporadic activity or hobby. This will include it on your return as ordinary income instead of self-employment income.
If you have already left that section, you can go back clicking Wages and Income, then edit on the summary screen next to the 1099-NEC for Amazon Vine.
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