OpenAI hired Kenyan workers for ChatGPT: They read all the traumatic content
A shocking statement has been made online. OpenAI filtered traumatic content from ChatGPT with the help of Kenyan workers making $2 an hour.
Some interesting details have now surfaced about ChatGPT, which has been raging since its launch. it looks like the company has a dark side for this AI. In order to make its chatbot safer to use, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, paid Kenyan workers less than $2 per hour to sort through tens of thousands of lines of text, according to a Time investigation published on Wednesday.
OpenAI hired Kenyan workers for ChatGPT: They read all the traumatic content
Time reported that the workers were required to read graphic details of NSFW content, such as child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self-harm, and incest, in order to label and filter out toxic data from ChatGPT's training dataset.
Workers faced tough working conditions and low wages. It was reported that employees were paid between $1.32 and $2 an hour, depending on seniority and performance. "I read a detailed description of a man having sex with a dog next to a small child and had recurring nightmares," a Kenyan employee told TIME. "This was torture," said the employee, continuing his words as follows: You've been reading a series of phrases like this all week. When you come to Friday, those images come to your mind and you continue to be disturbed.
