OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by xdavidliu on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:56AM (#34428300)

Didn't headline just state the fact objectively, and any negative implication comes from the mind of the reader? If not, how could the headline be less editorialized (in order to reduce the negative implication)?

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by ma2rten on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:39AM (#34429020)

1. It doesn't contextualize that $2 is a good wage for Kenya.

2. It says OpenAI "used" workers which has a negative connotation.

3. It is factually incorrect: OpenAI paid a vendor $12.50 per hour. It's unclear if they knew how much the actual workers were paid.

4. It used a negative framing implying ChatGPT is toxic.

So something like

"OpenAI vendor paid Kenyan workers above median wage to make ChatGPT more safe"

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by somedude895 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:34AM (#34428916)

"OpenAI hired Kenyan company to make ChatGPT less toxic"

"Kenyan workers helped make OpenAI's ChatGPT less toxic"

"OpenAI paid Kenyan workers minimum wage to work on ChatGPT"

Many different things are objectively true, but of course they mention the pay, because they know that to most of their "Western" readers it sounds outrageous.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by __derek__ on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:42AM (#34429076)

The pay is not even close to the most outrageous way to headline this article: it uses "toxic" as a euphemism for, e.g., not generating CSAM, rape, and other sexual violence.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:55PM (#34430251)

A computer cannot generate CSAM. Please do not misuse that phrase and diminish its impact.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by __derek__ on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:47PM (#34431045)

If an AI uses source images to generate novel reproductions, wouldn't that still count as CSAM?

Regardless, I should have included the phrase "depictions of" or similar.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:02PM (#34431295)

If an AI is generating novel images, I wouldn't call them CSAM even if they fall under a rule that makes them illegal.

If they're not properly novel then it depends on what the source images were, I guess? But it's not like you'd need to train it on anything obscene for it to figure out how to combine bad things with nudity.

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