Meta has terminated its contract with Sama, a data annotation firm based in Kenya, after Sama employees reported viewing sensitive and private footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The workers had complained about seeing explicit content, including sexual acts and people using the toilet, recorded by the glasses. Meta stated the contract was ended because Sama did not meet their standards, though Sama claims they were not notified of any specific failures and stand by their work's integrity. AI
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IMPACT Potential impact on data annotation practices and contractor oversight for AI systems.
RANK_REASON This is a news item about a company's business decision and its impact on contractors, with a tangential mention of AI systems.