Surge AI is latest San Francisco startup accused of misclassifying its workers
The Artificial Intelligence Training Company SURGE IA has been struck by an alleged trial that it has misunderstood the entrepreneurs hired to improve AI cat responses for some of the main technological companies in the world.
The proposed collective appeal alleys that the “data annotators” – hired by an IA overvoltage to ensure that powerful AI systems managed by Meta and Openai can properly generate textual responses which are correct and capable of imitating human expressions – have been “deliberately” classified as independent entrepreneurs, refusing them the services granted to employees.
In the trial submitted on Monday, the applicant based in California, Dominique Donjuan Cavalier II, represented by the law firm of public interests Clarkson, alleged that he and other data annotators had been made to carry out unpaid training and were subjected to almost impossible deadlines for the tasks that caused their salary.
Surge AI, based in San Francisco, also known as Surge Labs, and its subsidiaries “have collected enormous benefits by deliberately avoiding paying wages and benefits to those that carry out work that constitutes the backbone of defendants’ activities”, according to the trial.
The overvoltage AI did not respond to a request for comments.
In recent years, AI data training companies have been accused of having mistreated workers abroad in Kenya and elsewhere. But more and more, like the balloons in the AI industry, workers in California and at the national level began to raise similar complaints.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against the AI scale, a larger AI training company which has gathered a vast workforce of entrepreneurs to train AI tools for companies, including Open and Google AI, as well as the United States Defense Ministry.
The AI overvoltage has increased some 25 million, according to Crunchbase.
The much larger AI is looking for an assessment up to $ 25 billion in a potential tendering offer, Reuters reported.
Applicant Steve McKinney, a resident from Newbury Park who was hired by the AI scale subsidiary, AI as a “Tasker”, continued the company in December, alleging that he had promised a remuneration rate of $ 25 per hour, but was ultimately paid for a fraction of this amount.
Workers who interviewed the company’s payment practices in the SLACK internal messaging application were suddenly withdrawn from the application, according to the trial, which was also brought by law firm Clarkson, whose headquarters are in Malibu.
AI entrepreneurs on a scale in January struck the company with a second trial, alleging that entrepreneurs have been led to browse graphic “depraved images” and emotionally painful content, and have treated post-traumatic stress disorders and other psychological problems as a result.
The AI scale did not immediately respond to a request for comments. A company spokesman told Techcrunch in March that his work had been misunderstood by regulators and others and that the company offers “flexible work opportunities” to the Americans.
