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‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI

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283 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 13 Sep 25 11:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kerblang ◴[13 Sep 25 11:53 UTC] No.45231347[source]▶
Are other AI companies doing the same thing? Would like to see more articles about this...
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1. thepryz ◴[13 Sep 25 12:19 UTC] No.45231456[source]▶
Scale AI’s entire business model was using people in developing countries to label data for training models. Once you look into it, it comes across as rather predatory.

This was one of the first links I found re: Scale’s labor practices https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/scale-ai-is-facing-a-third...

Here’s another: https://relationaldemocracy.medium.com/an-authoritarian-work...