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Google to cut thousands of search quality rater jobs after dropping contract with Appen (searchengineland.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Google to cut thousands of search quality rater jobs after dropping contract with Appen::Appen says the termination notice goes into affect on March 19, 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good, they weren’t doing a great job. Maybe Google is going to move this in house.

[–] FenrirIII 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll probably try to use AI

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Let Google fail.

[–] trafalgar225 1 points 1 year ago

Postscript. A Google spokesperson told us that the quality rater work contracted with Appen will be moved to other suppliers and away from Appen.