Gig workers for Australia’s Appen trained AI for US spy planes

This investigation is the result of a UK-based collaboration. Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Six weeks before the United States launched its brazen mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a spy plane was spotted circling in a figure eight over the Atlantic near the country’s border with Guyana.

The US Air Force sent the Rivet Joint, one of the world’s most powerful surveillance aircraft, to gather intelligence ahead of a hostile operation. The United Kingdom also owns three aircraft and sent one to the North Atlantic last month to support the seizure of the Marinera tanker, which the United States says was carrying sanctioned oil to Venezuela.