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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/los-angeles-times-surge-ai-is-latest-san-francisco-startup-accused-of-misclassifying-its-workers/

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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/26/mental-toll-scale-ai-outlier-sued-by-humans-paid-to-steer-ai-away-from-our-darkest-depths-the-register/

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’

By Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato

AI is not artificial
AI is not intelligent

#AI #AIScale #remotasks #OpenAI #ChatGPT #DigitalSweatshops #philippines #exploitation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/