#digitalsweatshops — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalsweatshops, aggregated by home.social.
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Los Angeles Times: Surge AI is latest San Francisco startup accused of misclassifying its workers. “The proposed class action lawsuit alleges that ‘data annotators’ — hired by Surge AI to ensure that powerful AI systems run by Meta and OpenAI can properly generate text responses that are accurate and capable of mimicking human expressions — were ‘deliberately’ classified as independent […]
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The Register: Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths . “Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for allegedly failing to protect the mental health of contractors hired to protect people from harmful interactions with AI models.”