Scale.AI Hires Thousands of Humans to Train AI
Even modern AI companies are not excused from this behavior. Behind Scale AI, the $7 billion startup based in San Francisco, is 10,000 remote workers in the Philippines training its models, according to The Washington Post. These workers ensure that artificial intelligence models are operating accurately. They label thousands of images as various politicians and celebrities, edit chunks of text, and train video models to identify various objects.
This is the not-so-automated part of modern AI systems. It requires thousands of remote workers to train these systems, and these employees often get underpaid and working ridiculous conditions. Scale AI does work for firms such as Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
