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Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (time.com)

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Everyone is doing that. Apple is paying minimum wage workers in Greece to grade and correct their ai responses all day, I know people that work there

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

And there it is... ChatGPT is a mechanical Turk.

[-] bdonvr 7 points 5 days ago

I mean, no. It looks like they exploited a developing nation to fix their training data but that doesn't make them a Mechanical Turk.

It's not like a Kenyan person is responding to your request directly

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Two year old article. Might be good to note that in the title.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Yeah there you have it, doomers! Lots of jobs created!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I need to make a Kenyan friend to help me be nicer.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The key that Microsoft missed

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