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<p>Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI</p><p>Tens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p>Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and economics – putatively to refine top-level artificial intelligence systems through a platform called Outlier. “Become the expert that AI learns from,” it says on its <a href="https://outlier.ai/">site</a>, advertising flexible work for people with strong credentials.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI</p><p>Tens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p>Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and economics – putatively to refine top-level artificial intelligence systems through a platform called Outlier. “Become the expert that AI learns from,” it says on its <a href="https://outlier.ai/">site</a>, advertising flexible work for people with strong credentials.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology">Continue reading...</a>