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Another one: Remotasks Plus
September 24, 2026 at 10:29 AM
techequity.bsky.social
Despite contributing to billion-dollar AI systems, Junbee makes less than minimum wage through Remotasks, a subsidiary of Scale AI. However, there’s little recourse for workers at foreign companies like Remotasks, and that’s by design.

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September 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
gebiet.bsky.ar
y eso sin considerar el otro 'panorama humano': los rlhf (galeotes humanos que revisan las interacciones para que los llm den la impresión de funcionar por sí mismos):
Países. La contratación se concentra en hubs de bajo costo y alta disponibilidad de mano de obra anglófona o multilingüe: Kenia, Uganda, India, Filipinas, Nepal, Colombia, Venezuela y, en menor medida, Europa del Este. Estados Unidos y Europa occidental se reservan para perfiles expertos (médicos, abogados, científicos) o red teaming especializado. Intermediarios como Sama, Scale AI/Remotasks, Appen, Telus International o Invisible Technologies gestionan la mayor parte del trabajo. Salarios. Las cifras son muy dispares. En África oriental y el sudeste asiático, los anotadores de RLHF suelen ganar entre 1,5 y 5 USD por hora, a menudo por tarea y sin garantía de jornada. En India o Filipinas puede oscilar entre 2 y 8 USD/hora. En América Latina, entre 3 y 10 USD/hora según idioma y complejidad. En Estados Unidos o Europa, los revisores internos o expertos pueden cobrar entre 20 y 60 USD/hora, pero son minoría. La brecha no refleja necesariamente calidad, sino arbitraje laboral global. Condiciones laborales. Predomina el trabajo fantasma (ghost work): plataformas con pagos por tarea, sin contrato laboral, sin seguridad social, con métricas opacas y desactivación arbitraria. Los revisores de RLHF comparan respuestas, escriben prompts y clasifican daño; algunos moderan contenido extremo —violencia, abuso sexual, discurso de odio— con escaso apoyo psicológico. Hay reportes de trabajadores kenianos expuestos a material traumático por menos de 2 USD/hora, con sesiones obligatorias y NDAs que impiden hablar. La rotación es altísima y la supervisión algorítmica intensa. En resumen, el RLHF descansa sobre una fuerza laboral global precarizada, con salarios que van de miseria a privilegio según geografía, y condiciones que rara vez cumplen estándares básicos de salud mental o estabilidad. Es el costo oculto del alineamiento.
August 27, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Remotasks Review: Is This AI Training Platform Actually Worth Your Time?
An honest Remotasks review. Is this AI training platform actually worth your time? Real experience, earnings, and what to expect.
fortgreba.blogspot.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Remotasks Payment: What I Actually Earned Working From Home – Real Numbers Inside
Remotasks payment: What I actually earned working from home. Real numbers inside. Honest review without hype.
fortgreba.blogspot.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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fortgreba.blogspot.com/2026/05/ulti...
The Ultimate Microtask & Freelancing Platform Guide: 8 Platforms Tested and Compared
The ultimate guide to microtask and freelance platforms. Clickworker, Microworkers, Remotasks, Appen, TELUS, Lionbridge, Upwork, Fiverr.
fortgreba.blogspot.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
theworldofonlineearnings.com
Remotasks Review

A comprehensive analysis of Remotasks — the AI data annotation platform created by Scale AI. Trusted by 240,000+ taskers worldwide for image, video, 3D, and LiDAR tasks, with weekly payments.
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Remotasks Review 2026: Is the Original AI Task Platform Still Worth Using?
Remotasks review updated for 2026. Covers the Outlier migration, task types, payment methods, earning potential, and Scale AI ownership.
www.theworldofonlineearnings.com
August 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
techequity.bsky.social
However, there’s little recourse for workers at foreign companies like Remotasks, and that’s by design.

That’s why we developed the Data Work Landscape, which maps 116 companies; 1,900+ investor, client, and partner relationships; and the hidden AI supply chain. techequity.us/2026/05/21/d...
The hidden workforce behind every AI tool you use: Announcing the data work landscape 2.0 - TechEquity Collaborative
Announcing our Data Work Landscape 2.0—a map of the companies, investors, and clients powering the data portion of the AI supply chain.
techequity.us
June 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
techequity.bsky.social
AI isn’t all that artificial. Junbee in the Philippines, for instance, spends all day annotating data to “teach” AI what, for instance, avocado toast looks like.

Despite contributing to billion-dollar AI systems, Junbee makes less than minimum wage through Remotasks, a subsidiary of Scale AI.
June 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
itbb.bsky.social
Curious which jobs. Scale AI advertises $25/hour for PhD-level training work. Two lawsuits and a DOL investigation later, the effective rate is closer to $15 once unpaid task prep is factored in. Remotasks workers make $1-5/hour. These are the new jobs.
May 28, 2026 at 9:50 AM
themaybe.org
Doctors, engineers, and academics who once earned six‑figure salaries are now taking $20/hour micro‑tasks for companies like Outlier, Appen, and Remotasks. Their decades of expertise are being converted into training sets; fuel for models that may erase the need for their roles in the future.
April 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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AI Data Labeling Tools 2026 - Ranked Comparison Guide

https://awesomeagents.ai/tools/best-ai-data-labeling-tools-2026/

#Tools #DataLabeling #Annotation
AI Data Labeling Tools 2026 - Ranked Comparison Guide
A ranked comparison of 19 data labeling and annotation platforms for computer vision, NLP, and RLHF - with verified pricing, honest trade-offs, and a worker-treatment flag on Scale's Remotasks workforce.
awesomeagents.ai
April 22, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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AI Data Labeling Tools 2026 - Ranked Comparison Guide

https://awesomeagents.ai/tools/best-ai-data-labeling-tools-2026/

#Tools #DataLabeling #Annotation
AI Data Labeling Tools 2026 - Ranked Comparison Guide
A ranked comparison of 19 data labeling and annotation platforms for computer vision, NLP, and RLHF - with verified pricing, honest trade-offs, and a worker-treatment flag on Scale's Remotasks workforce.
awesomeagents.ai
April 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
sandiegouniontribune.com
Remotasks employs you to train AI. But the pay is peanuts and in the end you’re expendable.
Remotasks employs you to train AI. But the pay is peanuts and in the end you’re expendable.
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March 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
alexhanna.bsky.social
The precarity is not new. Data workers talked about how Remotasks pulled out of Africa with no warning years ago.

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A tweet from Karen Hao which says "Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya." The original tweet she is quote tweeting is her own, which she says : "For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/"
March 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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AI Training for Igbo Writers

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AI Training for Igbo Writers - Remotasks | Smart Remote Jobs
AI training opportunity for Igbo writers. Help improve AI models while working remotely with flexible hours. Weekly earnings. Apply now!
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March 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
alfredbaudisch.com
There's also another bad side of AI not mentioned in the article: the hundreds of thousands of people that worked in slave-like conditions doing data labelling for AI companies, the majority from Venezuela, Kenya and Nepal working for Appen, Remotasks, Scale and CloudFactory.
February 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
renzaro.com
The driverless car industry harms workers. When labor is outsourced and hidden away, employees are often poorly paid, non-union, and subject to abuse.

Think workers should be treated with dignity and respect? Ride a bus.
Article: Philippines: Scale AI creating ‘race to the bottom’ as outsourced workers face ‘digital sweatshop’ conditions incl. low wages & withheld payments In the Philippines, one of the world's biggest destinations for outsourced digital work, former employees say that at least 10,000 of these workers do this labour on a platform called Remotasks, which is owned by the $7bn San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Scale AI has paid workers at extremely low rates, routinely delayed or withheld payments and provided few channels for workers to seek recourse, according to interviews with workers, internal company messages and payment records, and financial statements. Rights groups and labour researchers say Scale Al is among a number of American AI companies that have not abided by basic labour standards for their workers abroad. Of 36 current and former freelance workers interviewed, all but two said they've had payments from the platform delayed, reduced or cancelled after completing tasks. The workers, known as "taskers," said they often earn far below the minimum wage - which in the Philippines ranges from $6 to $10 a day depending on region...
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
rarelightmare.bsky.social
Companies like OpenAI used Kenyan workers earning under $2/hour to label toxic content for ChatGPT. Meta, Google & others use intermediaries like Scale AI & Remotasks to hide their exploitation through supply chains.
December 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
donporque.bsky.social
¿Por qué la IA china busca datos en Kenia y quién los paga? #IA #China #Kenia #EtiquetadoDeDatos #TrabajoDigital #RutaDeLaSedaDigital #Nairobi #MPesa #Safaricom #Huawei #Remotasks #ScaleAI #Sama #9dediciembre #felizmartes
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¿Por qué la IA china busca datos en Kenia y quién los paga?
China impulsa su IA subcontratando en Kenia el etiquetado de datos: salarios bajos, WhatsApp como fábrica y Ruta de la Seda Digital. China ha encontrado una vía rápida y barata para sostener su carrer...
donporque.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
feenavan2099.bsky.social
"Scale AI’s own labor practices are horrid enough. But AFP reports that one Scale AI subsidiary, Remotasks, is taking it a step further: paying data labelers roughly one US cent for every task they finish, which can take hours. It’s a system Kanyugi compared to “modern slavery.”"
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
feenavan2099.bsky.social
"AFP reports that one Scale AI subsidiary, Remotasks, is taking it a step further: paying data labelers roughly one US cent for every task they finish, which can take hours. It’s a system Kanyugi compared to “modern slavery.”"
The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies
AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.
futurism.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
druce.ai
Scale AI and contractor Remotasks hire low-wage data labelers in Kenya, Colombia and India to annotate traumatic images, reportedly paying roughly one cent per task and exposing major AI firms to reputational, legal and regulatory risks.
The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies
AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Scale AI’s own labor practices are horrid enough. But AFP reports that one Scale AI subsidiary, Remotasks, is taking it a step further: paying data labelers roughly one US cent for every task they finish, which can take hours. It’s a system Kanyugi compared to ‘modern slavery.’”
October 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM