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janhoglund<p>Scale’s dominance would pose a growing challenge to companies that sought to follow a different model and pay living wages.<br>— Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Scale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/worker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>One group of eight workers in North Africa said Scale reduced their pay by more than a third in a matter of months. At least one worker was left with negative pending payments, suggesting that he owed Scale money. When the group attempted to organize against the changes, the company threatened to ban anyone engaging in “revolutions and protests.”<br>— Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Scale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>It [Scale AI] offered high earnings in each new market to attract workers and throttled those earnings as it settled in.<br>— Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>From the way they [Scale AI] treated us, I realized that their approach was to drain each user as much as possible, … and then dispose of them and bring new users in.<br>—Ricardo Huggines, in Empire of AI by Karen Hao<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>We [Karen Hao and Andrea Paola Hernández] found through a spreadsheet the company [Scale AI] left public that … workers who started with earnings of forty dollars a week were soon making less than six dollars or nothing at all. …the company…reverted to its standard operations, doling out tasks in a piecemeal fashion with no standard or guaranteed hours. <br>—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/worker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a></p>
Jason Yip<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> just <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/laidoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laidoff</span></a> 14% of its workforce: read the full email the interim CEO just sent employees <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scale-ai-layoffs-hit-genai-team-after-meta-deal-2025-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/scale-ai-l</span><span class="invisible">ayoffs-hit-genai-team-after-meta-deal-2025-7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>layoffs</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>Scale AI learns that scaling isn't just about speed 🤔 200 employees laid off after CEO admits they "ramped up GenAI capacity too quickly," creating inefficiencies. Sometimes even AI companies need human wisdom about sustainable growth.</p><p><a href="https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2058240/scale-ai-lays-off-200-employees-we-ramped-up-our-genai-capacity-too-quickly" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/20</span><span class="invisible">58240/scale-ai-lays-off-200-employees-we-ramped-up-our-genai-capacity-too-quickly</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechLayoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechLayoffs</span></a></p>
Digital Humanity (DGHD)<p>Meta quiso comprar Scale AI <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scaleai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scaleai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tecnolog%C3%ADa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tecnología</span></a><br>Meta, en su momento más bully quiso comprar ScaleAI, y aunque no lo logró si pudo adquirir el 49% de sus acciones y fichar a su CEO, Alexandr Wang.</p>
rijo<p>Meta's $14.8B Scale AI deal signals AI industry decline <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8b-scale-ai-deal-signals-ai-industry-decline/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8b-scale-ai-</span><span class="invisible">deal-signals-ai-industry-decline/</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a></p>
PPC Land<p>Meta's $14.8B Scale AI deal signals AI industry decline: Futurism suggests tech giant's desperate move indicates broader artificial intelligence market problems. <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8b-scale-ai-deal-signals-ai-industry-decline/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8b-scale-ai-</span><span class="invisible">deal-signals-ai-industry-decline/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a></p>
rijo<p>ICYMI: Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal exposes antitrust vulnerabilities <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/MergerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MergerReview</span></a></p>
PPC Land<p>ICYMI: Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal exposes antitrust vulnerabilities: The structured investment allows Meta to gain de facto control while avoiding traditional merger review. <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MergerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MergerReview</span></a></p>
rijo<p>ICYMI: Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal exposes antitrust vulnerabilities <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/MergerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MergerReview</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
PPC Land<p>ICYMI: Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal exposes antitrust vulnerabilities: The structured investment allows Meta to gain de facto control while avoiding traditional merger review. <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MergerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MergerReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"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.</p><p>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.</p><p>It turns out this was not an environment for fostering high-quality work.</p><p>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."</p><p>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.</p><p>"People made so much money," a former contributor told Inc. "They just hired everybody who could breathe.""</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/scale-ai-zuckerberg-incompetence" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/scale-ai-zuckerbe</span><span class="invisible">rg-incompetence</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataAnnotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnnotation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataLabeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataLabeling</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GigWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GigWork</span></a></p>
The Japan Times<p>Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions of dollars for top talent to make up ground in the generative artificial intelligence race, sparking doubt about the wisdom of the spree. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/30/tech/meta-ai-talent/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/business/2025</span><span class="invisible">/06/30/tech/meta-ai-talent/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markzuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markzuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scaleai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scaleai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alexandrwang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alexandrwang</span></a></p>
rijo<p>Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal exposes antitrust vulnerabilities <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/MergerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MergerReview</span></a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a></p>
PPC Land<p>Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal exposes antitrust vulnerabilities: The structured investment allows Meta to gain de facto control while avoiding traditional merger review. <a href="https://ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-scale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ppc.land/metas-14-8-billion-sc</span><span class="invisible">ale-ai-deal-exposes-antitrust-vulnerabilities/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MergerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MergerReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>Google, xAI Data Exposed in Massive Security Failure by New Meta Partner Scale AI</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataBreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBreach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/26/google-xai-data-exposed-in-massive-security-failure-by-new-meta-partner-scale-ai-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/06/26/googl</span><span class="invisible">e-xai-data-exposed-in-massive-security-failure-by-new-meta-partner-scale-ai-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Business Insider: Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds. “As Scale AI seeks to reassure customers that their data is secure following Meta’s $14.3 billion investment, leaked files and the startup’s own contractors indicate it has some serious security holes. Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs to track work for high-profile […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/business-insider-scale-ai-exposed-sensitive-data-about-clients-like-meta-and-xai-in-public-google-docs-bi-finds/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/business-insider-scale-ai-exposed-sensitive-data-about-clients-like-meta-and-xai-in-public-google-docs-bi-finds/</a></p>
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