Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

Last week the Guardian reported on “thousands of AI workers contracted for Google through Japanese conglomerate Hitachi’s GlobalLogic to rate and moderate the output of Google’s AI products, including its flagship chatbot Gemini… and its summaries of search results, AI Overviews.”
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung:…