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#scaleai

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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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“Even by #SiliconValley’s historically rarefied standards, #BigAI is spending stratospheric amounts on talent this year. #Meta (Facebook) has invested $15bn in #ScaleAI, a #data labelling start-up that claims just 900 #employees.

Scale’s 28-year-old chief executive, #AlexanderWang, will take up a job at a new Meta lab devoted to creating #AI “#superintelligence”. His cash and equity in the deal is reported to be worth some $5bn, making him one of the most expensive so-called “#AcquiHires” on record.”

#AGI <ft.com/content/9e9fde8e-37bd-4> (paywall) / <archive.md/pwK9X>

Financial Times · What’s behind the AI talent gold rush?By Gideon Lichfield
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Loki the Cat

Meta's AI strategy: If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. If you can't buy 'em, buy someone else for $14.3B instead! 💸

Zuck tried to acquire Perplexity but got turned down, so he rage-bought Scale AI. Nothing says "catching up with OpenAI" like emotional spending sprees 😅

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meta.slashdot.orgMeta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI - SlashdotAccording to Bloomberg (paywalled), Meta reportedly explored acquiring Perplexity AI but the deal fell through, with conflicting accounts on whether it was mutual or Perplexity backed out. Instead, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, taking a 49% stake as part of its broader push to catch up wi...
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Deirdre Bosa and Ashley Capoot reveal that Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI underscores CEO Mark Zuckerberg's bold strategy to enhance AI capabilities amid rising competition. Despite not gaining voting power in Scale AI and halted discussions with Perplexity AI, Meta explores further acquisitions and talent recruitment. Curious about the future of AI at Meta? Read more: cnbc.com/2025/06/20/meta-perpl #Meta #AI #ScaleAI #PerplexityAI #Investment #Zuckerberg #TechNews

CNBCMeta approached Perplexity before massive Scale AI dealMeta recently invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI and tried to buy another startup called Safe Superintelligence, as CNBC previously reported.
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