Scale AI is stiffing its task workers
AI training runs on a global army of unregulated workers who transform raw data into LLM fodder. Scale AI is one of the largest companies managing this army via its subsidiary Remotasks, which pays…
Huh. That sounds exactly like those work from home scams. Surely an AI company wouldn't do such a thing. Right?
It's microwork, like Amazon Mechanical Turk. You sign up on a website and there are small tasks you can complete (label this picture, is this result inappropriate, which of these is better etc) and you get a cent. Sometime the task will really be a test and your performance will be evaluated. It sounds easy at first but you'll be asked to make a call on many edge cases but it's not worth spending more than a couple seconds on it. I've done it. I stopped because taskers were getting increasingly demanding, it got slower and more annoying and I wasn't interested in having to actually use my brain for 2€/hr.
My guess is, at that level of expertise, you're being scouted/recruited more than applying.
Or it's through Slack channels, like described in the articles.
Further, pretty sure they farm out most of these kind of jobs outside of USA/EU/Canada.
In places where it's legal to pay workers less than a dollar an hour.