Appen

Google announced the termination of its contract with Australian data company Appen, which provided large language model AI training for Google products such as Bard and Search. This decision is part of Google's ongoing efforts to evaluate and adjust its many supplier partnerships under Alphabet to ensure the maximum efficiency of its supplier operations. According to The Verge, Appen said that they were not aware of this in advance and that the decision was unilaterally terminated by Google. At companies such as Appen, manual workers are usually responsible for training the less popular parts of AI...