https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-15-hour-workers
'OpenAI's finances are all over the place, but one thing is clear — not much of
the money it spends or earns is going to the low-wage contract workers hired to
train its AI.
Two OpenAI contractors revealed to
NBC News that the kind of work that goes
into training large language models (LLMs) like those behind ChatGPT is very
much "grunt work" — though in the case of these two individuals, they're pretty
happy to be doing it.
As 34-year-old Kansas City denizen and OpenAI contractor Alexej Savreux
explained, the job requires a lot of boring-sounding labor: labeling photos,
writing predictions for the AI, and other things that help the LLM "learn" how
to generate responses better.
"We are grunt workers," said Savreux, "but there would be no AI language
systems without it."
"You can design all the neural networks you want, you can get all the
researchers involved you want, but without labelers, you have no ChatGPT," he
added. "You have nothing."'
Via Muse, who wrote "Tell us more about how these people, who have to do the
boring grunt work, are somehow happy that with a $15/hr wage they might be able
to work their way up the ladder to better jobs that ChatGPT is now doing for
them. Technology was supposed to do the boring and dangerous work, not take
away meaningful work."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
