The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People
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Companies like Mercor are ushering in a new Wild West with no standards. The post The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People appeared first on Futurism. Companies like Mercor are ushering in a new Wild West with no standards. The post The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People appeared first on Futurism.
Nauti's Take
Credit to the reporting: it surfaces where training data actually comes from — overdue for an industry that prefers staying invisible. Risk: with no standards, contracts or fair pay, people get hurt directly and data quality quietly suffers too.
Practical for AI buyers: vendor audits should cover annotation supply chains, not just the models on top.
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