{"id":962651,"date":"2025-09-18T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962651"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:16:03","slug":"google-lays-off-200-gemini-ai-trainers-i-was-just-cut-off-a-worker-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/18\/google-lays-off-200-gemini-ai-trainers-i-was-just-cut-off-a-worker-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Google lays off 200 Gemini AI trainers, \u201cI was just cut off\u201d, a worker said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 contract workers hired to train and refine Google\u2019s artificial intelligence systems have been laid off, raising questions about job security, working conditions, and the growing impact of automation on human roles.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wired, the cuts were carried out in two rounds last month by GlobalLogic, a Hitachi-owned outsourcing firm that provides contractors for Google projects. Many of the affected workers, some holding advanced degrees, were part of a group known as \u201csuper raters.\u201d Their role involved fine-tuning chatbot responses, including those generated by Google\u2019s Gemini and the AI Overviews feature in Search, to ensure accuracy and a natural tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 contract workers hired to train and refine Google\u2019s artificial intelligence systems have been laid off, raising questions about job security, working conditions, and the growing impact of automation on human roles. According to Wired, the cuts were carried out in two rounds last month by GlobalLogic, a Hitachi-owned outsourcing firm that provides contractors for Google projects. Many of the affected workers, some holding advanced degrees, were part of a group known as \u201csuper raters.\u201d Their role involved fine-tuning chatbot responses, including those generated by Google\u2019s Gemini and the AI Overviews feature in Search, to ensure accuracy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}