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TECHNOLOGYApr 7 · 12:00 UTCTHE GUARDIAN TECH
Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for AI firm part-owned by Meta
Scale AI, a company 49%-owned by Meta, is employing gig workers to train AI by scraping Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted content, and transcribing pornographic material. The platform Outlier is used to recruit experts in fields like medicine and physics for AI development, raising ethical concerns about data collection practices.