You have an AI project that can find and remove illegal, disturbing content. But you have to train the AI on what the bad content is. Do you hire Kenyans for $2/hr to find it and submit it so the AI can learn to remove it?
"Classifying and filtering harmful [text and images] is a necessary step in minimizing the amount of violent and sexual content included in training data and creating tools that can detect harmful content," OpenAI said in a Time statement.
Still, the nature of the work has caused severe distress for some data labelers, according to the report. One employee called his work "torture" after he was assigned to read an excerpt about a man engaging in a sexual act with a dog with a child present — an experience so traumatic that it gave him recurring visions, he told Time.
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"Classifying and filtering harmful [text and images] is a necessary step in minimizing the amount of violent and sexual content included in training data and creating tools that can detect harmful content," OpenAI said in a Time statement.
Still, the nature of the work has caused severe distress for some data labelers, according to the report. One employee called his work "torture" after he was assigned to read an excerpt about a man engaging in a sexual act with a dog with a child present — an experience so traumatic that it gave him recurring visions, he told Time.
Kenyan data labelers were paid $2 an hour to label child sexual abuse, bestiality, and other horrific content for ChatGPT creator OpenAI, report says
A data-labeling firm cut ties with ChatGPT creator OpenAI over concerns around working with potentially illegal content to train AI, Time reports.
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