Annalee Newitz 🍜Jan 19, 2023
This tracks. OpenAI used underpaid gig workers in Kenya to make ChatGPT function as advertised. And they forced those workers to look at and classify abusive content all day. So weird how the new miracle tech turned out to be the old capitalist abuse of labor trick.
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

A TIME investigation reveals the poor conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

Time
Show threadTracingVRL by A.J. FishJan 19, 2023
@annaleen Lots of rah-rah AI stories out there
Show threadJoshJan 19, 2023
@tracingcovid @annaleen What a quote. How is "better art" defined exactly? 🤔😬
Show threadAnnalee Newitz 🍜
@krnlg @tracingcovid obviously if you're measuring in units of "wow" you can just do a wow benchmark and see that it has twice as much as human art.
Jan 19, 2023 at 6:37pmWeb
Show threadTracingVRL by A.J. FishJan 19, 2023
@annaleen @krnlg This is who runs the humanities now:
Show threadTracingVRL by A.J. FishJan 21, 2023
I just got that 😂