Meta Cuts Ties with Kenyan AI Data Firm

0:00On April 30, Meda just cut ties with Sama, the outsourcing firm, handling its AI training data from Kenya. Back in February, Sama workers spilled to Swedish papers about reviewing raw footage for meta-smart classes, stuff like folks using the bathroom or... Getting intimate. Less than two months later, Meta pulled the plug, leaving 1,100 A Kenyan workers jobless. Sama insists they hit all quality and security marks, and Meta never flagged issues before. Meta's line is simple, Sama didn't meet their standards. But a worker's group claims it's payback for those whistleblowers speaking up. These annotators were labeling videos and chat transcripts to teach Meta's AI what to recognize, all to boost the glasses' smarts. Meta says users can sense a humor reviews for product tweaks and its standard industry practice. Still, reports of glasses catching unintended private moments, like someone addressing raised red flags. Kenya's data protection office jumped in with a privacy probe right after the story's

1:01dropped. This isn't Sama's first rough patch with Meta. They ditched a Facebook moderation gig years back over traumatic content exposure, sparking lawsuits. That drag on. Now lawyers are warning Kenya not to bet big on AI jobs if giants like Meta bail at the first sign of trouble. The fallouts got everyone watching how these glasses and AI data deals play out next. That's your update from Global News today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story.