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Apple

Uses tagged image data to let you search all over your computer for specific things in your images

Where

Cupertino

California,

USA

Who

Software developers

Appen

Developed the data sets that companies like Apple use for identifying parts of images

Where

Sydney,

Australia

US Headquarters

Kirkland,

Washington

Who

Software developers

Who

Military officials

Military

Appen has had contracts with the US military worth $17m at points between 2005 and 2020, for different language projects.

Sidenote

Apple's Siri originally came out of military research like these projects too.

Questions

Appen has definitely been part of Apple's use of data annotation, though not very clear how.

Crowdgen

Appen subsidiary used for actually hiring people to do data annotation work

Where

200 countries

Where

Work opportunities can often depend on where you live and what languages you know

Who

People doing data annotation work as contractors

Military

People hired by Appen/Crowdgen to do data annotation work often aren’t told much about the work they’re doing or who it’s for.

Military

Many workers secretly end up working on projects ultimately for the US military, even those that live in places that have been attacked by the US.

Questions

Are there places you can’t work from at all, like most other data annotation companies?

Kind of Work

Image tagging

Given an image, draw boxes around objects and write what they are to train computers to do the same

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