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

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@annaleen Remember Yahoo!? They used humans to classify web sites. But they couldn't scale as fast as the automated schemes at Google, so here we are.
Jan 19, 2023 at 7:14pmWeb