ChatGPT relied on Kenyan laborers paid $2 per hour
Even the next generation of cutting edge generative AI can’t break free of its human overseers. A Time investigation last month revealed OpenAI relied on outsourced Kenyan laborers, some paid as little as $2 per hour, to sift through dark disturbing content to create an AI filter that would be embedded in ChatGPT and eventually used to scan for signs of horrific content. The content detector, made possible by the human reviewers, is used to reduce the change the popular AI tool will serve up harmful content to consumers. The detector also helps remove toxic entries from the datasets used to train ChatGPT.
Workers training the AI said they regularly scanned through text depicting vivid accounts of torture, suicide, incest, and child sexual abuse, all to make ChatGPT palatable for the public. One of the workers told Time they suffered from haunting, recurring visions after reading vile descriptions of beastiality. That was torture,” the worker said.
