OpenAI Contractors Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI's contractors, hired to improve ChatGPT by reviewing real user prompts, are being fired for using AI to do their work. Internal documents ban AI tools like Grammarly and GPTZero, and reviewers hunt for tell-tale signs such as em dashes and repetitive wording. One contractor admitted, "I just needed a little boost and turned to AI to help me which eventually led to my downfall." The irony: AI training companies working for OpenAI are punishing the very AI use OpenAI promotes.
I'm not a bad person or worker. I just needed a little boost and turned to AI to help me which eventually led to my downfall.
- jrflo
Clickbait title, they fired contractors for using AI to label data, which defeats the purpose of labeling data in this case.
- in_absentia
So OpenAI is not a believer in recursive self-improvement after all?
- ElliotAndersonC
#$*%Y+o$u g&e!t deleted//
- hmokiguess
Makes sense, they are buying distillation of human brains not their own weights.
- jakozaur
Typically, for AI training, you need human feedback. If AI were enough, then OpenAI would do it themselves. Though we all know how bad AI slop is, running it in a loop can lead to unreadable sentences.
They hired contractors on the condition that they provide human feedback without AI; those people broke the rules, so their contracts ended prematurely.
Not sure why this is news uncovered by an investigative journalist.