Business Insider has learned that those annotators focus their efforts on two high-profile categories of drivers: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a select set of "VIP" drivers.
These drivers are internally referred to as "VIP" users and their data is at times put in VIP queues, according to the workers.
Related storiesData collected from VIP users, including high-profile Tesla drivers who post on YouTube, is scrutinized more heavily and more likely to be labeled, three current and former workers said.
They said they'd been specifically told by leads on their teams that they were working on "VIP data" and had received overtime pay to work on the data ahead of FSD updates.
Tesla's self-driving in the regulatory spotlightTesla has come under increasing scrutiny from regulators over the self-driving software and the company's marketing of the service.
Persons:
—, Elon Musk, Musk's Teslas, YouTubers, Musk, Tesla, Tesla's, John Bernal, Bernal, else's, annotators, Walter Isaacson's, Tesla influencers, FSD, they'd, Raj Balwani, Chuck Cook, Tesla Raj, Balwani, I've, Cook, he'd, they're, Missy Cummings, Cummings, Philip Koopman, Koopman
Organizations:
Service, Business, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, California Department of Transportation, YouTube, National, Traffic Safety Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, US Justice Department
Locations:
Hillsborough , California, Tesla's Austin, Fremont , California, Hawthorne , California, California, San Francisco, Buffalo , New York, Los Angeles, Hawthorne, YouTubers, Lombard