The Untold Worker Exploitation Behind Large Language Models

A few months ago, 28-year-old Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang made headlines after his company, after a wildly successful funding round involving Meta, Amazon and Microsoft, raised over $1bn in venture capital. Although Wang’s success story is dramatic – from a 19 year old MIT dropout to the youngest self-made billionaire in the world – and well-reported, much less has been told about how his company, a massive data-labeling firm, came to be. Thanks to hours of research into institutional studies and relatively obscure reporting, I’ve become increasingly aware of a series of equally dramatic twists in the company’s recent history, one that intertwines the stories of hundreds of thousands of people and the ultimate fate of our world in the wake of the AI revolution. This article explains, in depth, my discoveries and knowledge regarding the travesties of human ingenuity ubiquitous in AI ...