{"id":203006,"date":"2026-04-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-meta-owned-ai-firm-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:15:46","slug":"porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-meta-owned-ai-firm-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/porn-dog-poo-and-social-media-snaps-the-taskers-scraping-the-internet-for-meta-owned-ai-firm-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the \u2018taskers\u2019 scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/07\/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology\">Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the \u2018taskers\u2019 scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/07\/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/07\/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-07 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here\u2019s a polite and respectful summary of the key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Company Involvement:<\/strong> Tens of thousands of people, working for Scale AI\u2014part-owned by Meta\u2014were reportedly hired to train AI by harvesting various forms of data, including social media profiles, photos of dead animals, and pornographic content.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Diverse Backgrounds:<\/strong> Workers came from various professional backgrounds, including medicine, physics, economics, journalism, graduate studies, teaching, and librarianship.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Moral Discomfort:<\/strong> Many workers expressed discomfort and ethical concerns about their roles, feeling they were contributing to their own potential obsolescence in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Content Concerns:<\/strong> Workers were given tasks that involved transcribing pornographic soundtracks, labeling disturbing images, and harvesting copyrighted artwork, which they found increasingly distressing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Scale of Operations:<\/strong> According to a lawyer representing AI gig workers, hundreds of thousands of such gig workers might be employed on platforms globally.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Monitoring and Transparency:<\/strong> Workers felt constantly monitored and questioned the transparency of the assignments and their uses, including whether their data was also used by Meta products like Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Expectation of Scraping:<\/strong> Workers experienced an expectation to scrape private data, including social accounts of under-18s and celebrities, and often had to work against the ethical discomforts they felt.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Public and Corporate Relations:<\/strong> The company maintained relationships with major corporations and government entities, highlighting demand for labeled data to train advanced AI models.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more detailed information or specific references, I encourage you to visit the original article in <em>The Guardian<\/em> for an in-depth exploration of these topics.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the \u2018taskers\u2019 scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6a0de58951f90a4849c44f56c26057b1dc349ddb\/520_0_5200_4160\/master\/5200.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=ca0ad03ec43153256e803b00ff6e88aa","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203008,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203006\/revisions\/203008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}