‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI

I previously made a list on twitter of some data labeling startups that work with foundation model companies.[1] Here's the RLHF provider section:

RLHF providers:

1. Surge. $1b+ revenue bootstrapped. DataAnnotation is the worker-side (you might've seen their ads), also TaskUp and Gethybrid.

2. Scale. The most well known. Remotasks and Outlier are the worker-side

3. Invisible. Started as a kind of managed VA service.

4. Mercor. Started mostly as a way to hire remote devs I think.

5. Handshake AI. Handshake is a college hiring network. This is a spinout

6. Pareto

7. Prolific

8. Toloka

9. Turing

10. Sepal AI. The team is ex-Turing

11. Datacurve. Coding data.

12. Snorkel. Started as a software platform for data labeling. Offers some data as a service now.

13. Micro1. Also started as a way to hire remote contractor devs