Google contractors who helped train the Bard AI chatbot vote to unionize

Mon, 11/06/2023 - 20:16

Google employees protest in London in April 2023 — Google workers gathered for a protest staged by Unite the union outside the Google headquarters in Kings Cross, in response to what they call appalling treatment and union busting of staff facing redundancies.
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Contract workers for Accenture voted to unionize on Monday, following layoffs in August.
The workers write Google Help articles, and workshopped the Bard AI chatbot's responses.
YouTube contractors working with Cognizant also voted to unionize in April.

Google contractors with Accenture, who write Google Help articles and review AI-generated content from the Bard chatbot, voted on Monday to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents Google employees and contractors.