Meta-linked firm accused of exploiting gig workers to scrape private data for AI

Thousands of gig workers hired by a firm partially owned by Meta have raised alarm over exploitative practices involving scraping data from social media accounts and other sensitive sources to train artificial intelligence systems. The company, Scale AI, operates the Outlier platform and has drawn workers from fields like medicine and physics, promising flexible, high-level tasks. However, workers report tasks ranging from transcribing explicit content to harvesting copyrighted material, sparkin