Sama
PulseAugur coverage of Sama — every cluster mentioning Sama across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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AI alignment requires teaching and socialization, not just control
AI alignment is a complex challenge that extends beyond mere control mechanisms. It necessitates a comprehensive approach to teaching, socializing, and integrating artificial intelligence into human society. This perspe…
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SAMA framework boosts low-resource multimodal extraction with semantic anchors
Researchers have introduced SAMA, a novel framework designed to address data scarcity in Multimodal Information Extraction (MIE) tasks like Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction, and Event Extraction. SAMA utili…
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Meta's smart glasses data processed by Kenyan workers viewing private moments
An investigation revealed that Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses collect video, audio, and image data that is processed by human workers employed by Sama, a Meta subcontractor based in Kenya. These workers have reported view…
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AI industry faces scrutiny over underpaid overseas data labelers
Allegations have surfaced regarding the AI industry's reliance on underpaid overseas workers for data annotation, a crucial step in training AI models. These workers, employed by companies like Sama, manually label vast…
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Meta lays off 1,000 Kenyan data labelers after explicit smart glasses footage review
Meta has terminated its contract with Sama, a Kenyan company that employed over 1,000 data annotators. These workers were tasked with reviewing sensitive and explicit footage captured by Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to …
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Meta cuts AI contractors after they viewed Ray-Ban Meta users' private footage
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 a…