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Re:ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 ... by petetnt on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:58PM (#35868027)
Those who say that this is better than alternative x or y are missing the point. They could pay a premium for any label worker anywhere, whether it was $30 bucks per hour in America or $15 in Kenya, but they won't because the pursuit for AI, like most human endeavors, is driven primarily by human greed in the end.
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Re:ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 ... by anon291 on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:53PM (#35868512)
What's the greed? There are an incredible amount of people capable of doing data labeling. Obviously, the price for the service is low.
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Re:ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 ... by nebulousthree on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:21PM (#35868727)
Perhaps the workers should monetize the implicit factors of the job in order to get their true value. After all, labelling is one thing. Labelling correctly is another thing entirely. Labelling at high speed is another thing. Labelling in more than one language is yet another thing, and so on.
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Re:ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 ... by prepend on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:08PM (#35868626)
Wages aren’t set arbitrarily, they are set by market rates.

They could pay $30, but they’d rather have those people do more productive time than waste their skills labeling stuff. Paying skilled people to do unskilled work is a recipe for sadness and depression.

Why not suggest they pay $200/hour. I mean OpenAI has the money, right? $15 is high pay to sit at a console and label stuff. People literally make the same for cooking burgers and most retail jobs pay less. And these jobs don’t require a lot of training or skill, that’s why they pay so low.

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Re:ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 ... by petetnt on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:48AM (#35872389)
”They’d rather have” has nothing to do with though. They do it because they can and want to. Obviously those cooking burgers or working in retail would deserve to earn more but if even ”new”, ”revolutionary” companies won’t do it, there’s really no hope.
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