What Is Really Happening With the Direction of AI Rating Companies?
What is really happening with the direction of Big Tech leadership after all?
Today’s Google search results are worse than they were 10 years ago.
We know that projects in the area of AI algorithm result evaluation are becoming increasingly rare, quality metrics have lost any meaningful standards, and payment rates have dropped absurdly. Special thanks to Welocalize, Appen, Telus, OneForma, etc...
There is now a horde of people receiving scraps and working with absolutely no commitment to quality. Let’s face reality: I follow these groups, and it’s not hard to see evaluators openly sharing evaluation tasks with each other.
Everyone is trapped in a chain of cynicism: companies pretend they are paying a reasonable rate, and evaluators pretend they are working properly.
For the salary being paid, it’s hardly worth trying to maintain any real quality standard.
More than a decade ago, I was part of a solid project with a monthly quality evaluation metric that was terrifying, but at the same time excitingly challenging — all of this with a reasonable salary. (God bless the late Leapforce.)
Nowadays, what remains is this: you try searching for something on Google or any AI system, distrust the information you receive, and then have to manually re-search everything on some ad-filled website just to verify whether the information is actually true.
The path between the user and information has become longer and less reliable.
And all of this is happening because of Big Tech’s uncontrolled race toward AI-driven automation, making the user experience worse than ever.
