How Conversations You Never Shared With AI Can Still Land in the Laps of Offshore Contractors

The “memory” that makes AI feel personal is often built from scraps of your life handed to human graders.

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By the time you finish telling Meta’s AI how your boss ruined your life, a stranger halfway across the world might already be reading it over lukewarm coffee. The stranger’s job isn’t to help you heal; it’s to give your robot therapist a performance review.

According to contract workers speaking with Business Insider, Meta’s chatbot conversations aren’t the locked diary people imagine. They’re training material. And the “class” is staffed by low-paid raters in outfits like Outlier (owned by Scale AI) and Alignerr, who are tasked with grading how Meta’s AI handles your late-night oversharing.

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