"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.

Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck::“These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users,” the union representing the contractors said.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    283·
    8 months ago

    The headline for parents is that Google is firing a bunch of people who keep gore and porn out of Google safe search.

    I’ll be right back, I need to grab some popcorn for this.

    After I double check that my own kid’s browsers all default to DuckDuckGo…

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      8 months ago

      Tbh most of nsfw content moderation has been automated for several years now and ML image recognition has come a long way. I’m a bit surprised they’re only firing 10% of raters.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I’m surprised they’re paying them at all. They could offer an extra couple of gigs of storage and people would do it for free.