OpenAI Contractors Fired for Using AI to Train AI Models
404 Media reports that OpenAI has fired multiple contractors hired to improve its models after discovering they used AI to generate training data. The contractors were supposed to provide a human touch by reading real ChatGPT user prompts, but some outsourced the work to AI, raising concerns about model collapse.
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404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists. Our intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content. OpenAI has an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users’ prompts and other data to help improve the chatbot’s responses. The idea is that the contractors provide an, obviously, human touch to OpenAI’s models. Well, not all of the contractors are doing that. 404 Media has found multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI’s models have been fired for using AI to train the AI. That’s not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training companies working for OpenAI firing people for using AI when OpenAI’s whole thing is to make people use AI at work. Some AI models already exhibit signs of “model collapse,” which is where AI models further trained on AI-generated text can