Scale AI faces complaints in Europe over data practices · 10 sources tracked
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A user named noybeu has filed five complaints across France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Austria against the US-based company Scale AI. The complaints allege that Scale AI not only utilizes the extensive knowledge of its 900,000 freelance workers but also collects vast amounts of their personal data and mandates invasive biometric verification. Separately, discussions on Mastodon touch upon various AI-related topics, including evaluating AI accessibility, the nature of LLMs, and the importance of AI safety.
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Raises concerns about data privacy and labor practices within the AI training data industry, potentially impacting how companies like Scale AI operate.
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A user has filed multiple legal complaints against a prominent AI data labeling company, alleging significant privacy and data collection issues.
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1175 84738216405862 BTW should be obvious, this is the official bursting of the # AIBubble . we should call it the # AI # cuxplotion .
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@noybeu/117519 007436391075 I går indgav @ noybeu i alt 5 klager i 4 forskellige lande 🇫🇷 , 🇮🇹 🇳🇱 , 🇦🇹 mod 1 enkelt virksomhed – det USA 🇺🇸 -baserede selskab # Scale – som driver # AI -trænings-platformen # Outlier (kunder: Meta, OpenAI, Google – og U…
@ Tutanota Like @ redscare # Question - IS IT PRIVACY 1st BUT AI 2nd? / 5th? 10th? (With respect to clear the air I say this...) I also would like to hear a "#disvow" to # AI or sub-specifics - I haven't read or haven't see everything to judge (and see a lot of good - like rebel-…
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@TanjaStrange/ 117352229598052279 Day 401 AmazonDE still doesn't care that it has a systemic # metadata problem, that affects several actors and includes mixed up casts, mangled & wrong names, broken searchability and mixed franchises. THIS IS NOT JUS…
Re: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/117592857554097967 This is incoherent. The "open weight" "local" models are largely coming out of the AI labs that are making hackable hardware inaccessible to many people, and have this outcome as one of their goals. The futu…
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@grandrapidsne ws/117587989752913899 This could be a hornets nest under the hood. Take the company's untested # Palantir powered # AI # insurance # software and unleash it on an entire county of 675K+ people and their # PublicMoney that's been investe…
RE: https:// mastodon.uno/@opensource/11758 1903978276813 SHIT called "opensource" by the criminal spreaders, block it before the account is banned. Get in on the ground floor. # ai # droppings # scat # fecalWare
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I went to # Kilkenomics ! I got to see @ pluralistic explain reality to Des Traynor! https://blog.ben.ie/posts/kilkenomics-2026/ # CoryDoctorow # DavidMcWilliams # Kilkenomics # AI # DesTraynor
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LOLOL (I have considered doing this in my alt text, but that wouldn't be fair to the actual non-sighted users here) https:// mastodon.social/@jensorensen/1 17576684643358875 # AI
RE: https:// mastodon.chriswiegman.com/@chr is/117575736972984594 Just wow. I already assumed everything on line is accessible and discoverable eventually, but this really shows the scary reality. # AI # BigBrother
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@jensorensen/1 17576684643358875 To me, it's complicated. I do not believe in 'intellectual property' in the age of the internet. Of course if you write a book it's your's, but copyright of 90 years or so after the death of the maker, makes no sense. …
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@24_A11y/11757 5051717806961 Mark your calendar for December! Wilco Fiers is tackling that question head-on. In his upcoming article, he explores how the accessibility community can evaluate AI beyond simple pass or fail testing, covering everything f…
RE: https:// masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/ 117571883070832740 These are the things I keep trying to tell everyone. LLMs don’t know anything, don’t think anything, don’t strive for anything more than a player piano does. # ai # llm
RE: https:// floss.social/@karen/1175701241 75915481 the software freedom dumpster promoting slop again. I guess that's their main thing now # SoftwareFreedom # AI # LLM # slop
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1 17570732626000738 A lot of us cannot read. # Meta # Facebook # AI # ArtificialIntelligence # Technology # Tech
RE: https:// wisskomm.social/@tuberlin/1175 63129151594917 Making plans for tonight? Don’t forget to save some time to learn more about # AISafety . ▶️ Join our livestream with # AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio at # TUBerlin as he explores the risks of autonomous AI agents and how we ca…
RE: https:// social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/ 117569235344987526 Det er jo næsten som om et projekt skabt, udbredt og profiteret på af verdens absolut værste mennesker også er et sandt helvede at være ansat i - hvem kunne dog have gættet det!? - men kom nu, politikere, lad os høre …
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@villebooks/11 7568723340202106 🗨️ Im Übrigen hat Greenpeace die gleichen # US Technologien genutzt, wie alle anderen auch, trotz ihrer angeblich so bewusst ausgebildeten # medien und # forschungsgruppen - Es gibt eben in jedem # unternehmen die Präfe…
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RE: https:// anarres.family/@faithisleaping /117564905548570621 - and again, this is true for all LLM output. Just today I had to sit through a chatbot-themed session (don't fucking ask) & everything out of that POS was 5-20 times longer & more verbose than it had any purpose, le…
RE: https:// mastodon.ie/@pierre_pebble/117 564181716749756 I feel the same way, my first ambitious indie game I was proud to share it, this one I don’t even want to collect wishlists on. When I say that # AI is actually an unproductive technology, this is what I mean. Those who …
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RE: https:// mastodon.online/@pernillet/117 556934676634851 As the yesterday's election proves, however, even if you have half a fucking billion dollars to spend on it, IT DOESN'T WORK - you will still have your entire ignoble ass handed to you in tatters. - so, you know, there's…
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesu s/117556543318452155 @ AwetTesfaiesus @ junior42 ich lese in der Opinion des Generalanwalts also: - das Trainieren von LLMs wird nicht weiter behandelt, weil Beweise fehlen, dass die Artikel des Klägers dafür verwendet wurden - aber sel…
RE: https:// mastodon.online/@parismarx/117 553692591133397 I think all these things: - Andy Yen is right - Andy Yen cannot read a room - This is the right response from the employees, and software developers everywhere need to get on that train ASAP # llms # llm # ai
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl er/117552044659454285 This technology should 💯 be entrusted with millisecond-duration human-annihilation-deciding tasks. # ai
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl er/117552044659454285 They're destroying the planet for this shit and our Governments are helping them all along the way # ButlerianJihad # AI # LLMs # TechBros
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RE: https://mastodon.social/users/jcoglan/statuses/117546100280123064 This is an excellent thread and I recommend reading the whole thing. I'd like to say that it's getting at why competent software developers are implementing gradient ascent while LLMs+test suites are implementi…
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@darkghosthunt er/117537984497522348 It remembers me a job that I lost many years ago. I was talking to a client about making a custom-tailored design for their Wordpress site. I charged around $1,200. They went for a guy that charged them $900. And a…
Should you ditch the web designer? https:// levelup.gitconnected.com/ditch -the-web-designer-with-these-four-ai-skills-bde4e881e63c Personally, I would ditch those template-copy-pasters that charge $500 just for the priviledge. These four AI skills will help you with that. # AI #…
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@aicaution/117 532822880696906 Abandoned by adults and institutions who should know better youth lead other youth to learn about literacy without ’AI’. # AI # BritishColumbia # Canada
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11 7530948843068117 Dlouho sbírám odvahu úplně opustil zlý Googlu, například ve prospěch @ protonprivacy , ale management začal taky trpět # AI psychózou, čímž ztrácí mou důvěru.
