I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

People who had previously felt paralyzed by their NDA began to talk. Helena, the conflict-avoidant moderator of the Mercor subreddit, worked overtime deleting furious rants from aggrieved workers who delighted in dropping names of the “secret projects”—something explicitly banned by the non-disclosure agreement every tasker must sign before being hired as an Independent Contractor. Elsewhere, … Read more

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI ​​lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries. In a letters addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize the Communication Workers … Read more