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A group of eight Democratic lawmaker sent a letter to large technology and AI firms raising concerns about the treatment of workers who perform “ghost work.”

Appen helped train artificial intelligence models for Google, Microsoft and Amazon, but the company now faces deteriorating financials and executive departures

Appen helped train artificial intelligence models for Google, Microsoft and Amazon, but the company now faces deteriorating financials and executive departures

Every day, Ed Stackhouse views porn, disturbing videos and images, and even suicide forums as one of more than 5,000 Google raters nationwide.

Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors from companies including Appen Ltd. and Accenture Plc, who can…

Contractors under pressure and low pay crucially shape Google's Bard AI chatbot, raising concerns over AI product quality.

Tech companies rely on actual people to review chatbots answers, provide feedback on mistakes and weed out any inklings of bias. Read on.

Google's Bard AI chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors.

Its an increasingly thankless job. Six current Google contract workers said that as the company entered a AI arms race with rival OpenAI over the past year, the size of their workload and complexity of their tasks increased.

Google: "As it stands right now, people are scared, stressed, underpaid, dont know whats going on," said one of the contractors. "And that culture of fear is not conducive to getting the quality and the teamwork that you want out of all of us."