Amazon’s ex-drone manager says he was fired for raising security concerns, IBM allegedly deceived the market about its cloud sales and OpenAI hired Kenyan workers to make ChatGPT less toxic Used on less than $2 per hour.
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Cheddie Skeet, an ex-Amazon drone manager, claims he was fired after raising safety concerns about Amazon’s delivery drone project and is now suing the company. Upon joining, he noticed that there was no onboarding process for new employees, there were no bathrooms on field sites, and most importantly, there were too many crashes. He stayed with the company for less than 2 years when he was reportedly denied a promotion and eventually fired after raising security concerns with the internal team. In his lawsuit, he also alleges that Amazon discriminated against him because he is a black man and retaliated against him for raising safety concerns about the drone program, according to TechExplore. An Amazon spokesperson said Skeet’s allegations are false and the company looks forward to proving it in court.
source: techexplore
The Register reported that investors are suing IBM, along with 13 of its current and former executives, for allegedly using mainframe sales to boost cloud sales. The allegations surfaced in a lawsuit filed late last week against IBM in New York. It alleged that the company shifted sales by its “near-monopoly” mainframe business to its newer and less popular cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security products (CAMSS), which executives promoted as growth opportunities. given and designated as “strategic imperatives”. The company is also accused of shifting revenue from its non-strategic Global Business Services (GBS) segment to Watson, its cloud technologies division, to assure investors that the company is successfully expanding beyond its legacy business .
source: register
According to a report in The Time, the popular AI tool, ChatGPT, touted as one of the key tech innovations in 2022, owes its success to Kenyan workers, who were asked to make ChatGPT “less toxic”. Was paid less than $2 an hour. Being trained on the internet’s vast repository of human language, ChatGPT’s predecessor, GPT-3, was also successful in stringing together impressive sentences. But given the widespread toxicity and prejudice on the internet, it can also randomly spark hate speech, including violent, racist and sexist comments. The AI firm therefore created another AI model, which included instances labeled violence, hate speech or sexual abuse in ChatGPT as a detector to filter out all hate keywords. To obtain these labels, thousands of snippets of text were sent to an outsourcing firm in Sama, Kenya, which hired data labelers for wages of between $1.32 and $2 an hour, depending on seniority and performance. TIME reviewed hundreds of pages of internal Sama and OpenAI documents, including workers’ pay slips, and interviewed four Sama employees who worked on the project.
source: time
According to ProPublica, websites that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which is under US law to prosecute those who use the drugs to cause abortions in states where abortion is illegal. may allow enforcement. ProPublica found web trackers on the sites of at least nine online pharmacies that provide pills by mail. These third-party trackers, including Google Analytics tools and advertising technologies, collect a lot of details about users and feed them to Google and its third parties. The nine sites are also sending data to Google that could potentially identify users through a random number that is unique to the user’s browser. People take it for granted that their health information is legally protected, but US privacy laws do little to limit the type and amount of data that can be collected from individuals by Big Tech. Generally, tech companies are not bound by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, which limits certain health care providers and health plans on sharing patient medical information.
source: propublica
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