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#ScaleAI

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janhoglund

One group of eight workers in North Africa said Scale reduced their pay by more than a third in a matter of months. At least one worker was left with negative pending payments, suggesting that he owed Scale money. When the group attempted to organize against the changes, the company threatened to ban anyone engaging in “revolutions and protests.”
— Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#ScaleAI #Scale #AI

janhoglund

We [Karen Hao and Andrea Paola Hernández] found through a spreadsheet the company [Scale AI] left public that … workers who started with earnings of forty dollars a week were soon making less than six dollars or nothing at all. …the company…reverted to its standard operations, doling out tasks in a piecemeal fashion with no standard or guaranteed hours.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#ScaleAI #work #worker #exploitation

Loki the Cat

Scale AI learns that scaling isn't just about speed 🤔 200 employees laid off after CEO admits they "ramped up GenAI capacity too quickly," creating inefficiencies. Sometimes even AI companies need human wisdom about sustainable growth.

slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/20

slashdot.orgScale AI Lays Off 200 Employees: 'We Ramped Up Our GenAI Capacity Too Quickly' - SlashdotScale AI is laying off 14% of its workforce and 500 contractors as part of a major restructuring just weeks after Meta bought a 49% stake and absorbed its CEO into a new superintelligence lab. The Verge reports: Jason Droege, CEO of Scale AI, sent an email to all Scale employees today, which was vi...
#ScaleAI#GenAI#TechLayoffs
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Scale AI is basically a data annotation hub that does essential grunt work for the AI industry. To train an AI model, you need quality data. And for that data to mean anything, an AI model needs to know what it's looking at. Annotators manually go in and add that context.

As is the means du jour in corporate America, Scale AI built its business model on an army of egregiously underpaid gig workers, many of them overseas. The conditions have been described as "digital sweatshops," and many workers have accused Scale AI of wage theft.

It turns out this was not an environment for fostering high-quality work.

According to internal documents obtained by Inc, Scale AI's "Bulba Experts" program to train Google's AI systems was supposed to be staffed with authorities across relevant fields. But instead, during a chaotic 11 months between March 2023 and April 2024, its dubious "contributors" inundated the program with "spam," which was described as "writing gibberish, writing incorrect information, GPT-generated thought processes."

In many cases, the spammers, who were independent contractors who worked through Scale AI-owned platforms like Remotasks and Outlier, still got paid for submitting complete nonsense, according to former Scale contractors, since it became almost impossible to catch them all. And even if they did get caught, some would come back by simply using a VPN.

"People made so much money," a former contributor told Inc. "They just hired everybody who could breathe.""

futurism.com/scale-ai-zuckerbe

Futurism · The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous IncompetenceBy Frank Landymore
#AI#GenerativeAI#Meta
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