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Displaced Workers Help Perfect AI Systems
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The Verge's Josh Dzieza reports that displaced white-collar workers are being hired as contractors to create training data for AI, working for vendors like Mercor, Scale AI, and Surge AI to support systems such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. Dzieza documents precarious conditions—micromanagement, secrecy, pay cuts, and legal disputes over worker classification—raising questions about surveilled, disposable knowledge labor.
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