Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to former employees.
At an event called Tesla AI Day in 2021, Andrej Karpathy, then senior director of AI at Tesla, said: "Unfortunately, we found very quickly that working with a third party to get data sets for something this critical was just not going to cut it … Honestly, the quality was not amazing."
Groups of data labellers were assigned a variety of different tasks, including labelling street lane lines or emergency vehicles, ex-employees said. "And there was just definitely a lot of stuff that like, I wouldn't want anybody to see about my life." According to several ex-employees, some labellers shared screenshots, sometimes marked up using Adobe Photoshop, in private group chats on Mattermost, Tesla's internal messaging system.There they would attract responses from other workers and managers. Participants would also add their own marked-up images, jokes or emojis to keep the conversation going. Some of the emojis were custom-created to reference office inside jokes, several ex-employees said.
"People who got promoted to lead positions shared a lot of these funny items and gained notoriety for being funny."
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