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Man that’s pretty shitty that Mercor tricked 40k contractors, and then did a poor job of securing their data. There should be stronger consequences for stuff like this.
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What happens now is that a lot of clueless CTO that didn't know about this company now know it's name. So the outcome of this mess is probably more business for Mercor

I mean, just look at what happened to Crowdstrike....


Mercor has around 5 customers that make up 95% of its revenue. Anybody who needs to know about them already does.

At minimum, collecting voiceprints should come with much stricter consent, retention and security requirements than ordinary "training data"



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