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fromBusiness Insider
13 hours ago

Pay cuts, poaching, and pivoting: Inside Scale AI after Meta

Scale AI's contractor workforce is shrinking amid client losses, lowered valuations, Meta's investment, and contractors leaving over pay cuts, unpaid onboarding, and reduced workloads.
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

The move comes amid an ongoing fight over pay and working conditions, according to workers who spoke to WIRED. Most raters working at GlobalLogic are based in the US and deal with English-language content. Just as content moderators help purge and classify content on social media, these workers use their expertise, skill, and judgment to teach chatbots and other AI products, including Google's search summaries feature called AI Overviews -the right responses on a wide range of subjects.
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