, a San Francisco-based technology company valued at $7 billion, is facing allegations of worker exploitation and labor standards violations regarding its remote workers in the Philippines, as reported by The Washington Post. These workers, employed through the company's Remotasks platform, have complained of exploitation and subpar wages, often falling far below minimum wage levels.
For example, 23-year-old Filipino worker Charisse told The Washington Post that Remotasks only paid her 30 cents for four hours of work. Jackie, 26, said he received $12 for working on a project for three workdays, thinking that he would earn $50. Benz, 36, said he collected more than $150 in payments when he was suddenly booted from the platform and never received his money.
Scale AI, from the very start, has been one of those fake big tech "unicorns" that made profit off of scamming third world workers and scamming senile senators for that sweet sweet defense money. Worse, it's headed by some 26-year old hanjian.
Alexandr Wang, the 26-year-old chief executive of the billion-dollar company Scale AI, which manages an army of human AI trainers, was a familiar D.C. face long before the craze over ChatGPT began, securing lucrative government contracts and winning over members of Congress.
Scale touted that it would provide AI services to the Department of Defense as part of a $249 million contract, but it’s not clear what percentage of those funds it captured. Forbes that Scale has received around $60 million in government contracts to date. A spokesperson for the company declined to provide revenue numbers.
Wang has taken particular interest in speaking to lawmakers about his on China.