SCALE AI'S SPAM, SECURITY WOES PLAGUED THE COMPANY WHILE SERVING GOOGLE

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Scale AI's long relationship with Google was fraught with lapses in security protocols for at least 11 months between March 2023 and April 2024. Scale AI's efforts to train Google AI programs were meant to be exclusively staffed by experts in various specialties, but the program instead became flooded by spammers who abused the system by submitting transparently shoddy work that managed to evade detection. The spammers were often paid because it was too difficult to detect them due to their sheer numbers.