NEW YORK – The New York Times is using AI technology to monitor and surveil the performance of unionized tech workers in violation of their collective bargaining agreement, the NewsGuild of New York says.
The NYGuild, which represents three bargaining units at The New York Times, filed two grievances and an unfair labor practice charge against The Times on Thursday, both on behalf of the Tech Guild.
“Using AI to surveil our work violates our contract and creates a skewed, inaccurate picture of our members’ work,” said Benjamin Harnett, chair of the Tech Guild’s Generative AI committee and a staff software engineer at The Times. “Our work takes human judgment, problem-solving and skill that can't be accurately assessed by AI analysis and proxy metrics. It's the equivalent of setting an arbitrary story quota for journalists.”
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