It was submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623629
Again, there is effectively zero real data showing this. Further, RLHF isn't likely to reinforce such word selection regardless.
A more logical, likely scenario is that training data is biased heavily towards higher grade level material, so word selection veers towards writings that you find in those realms.
typical people prefer to pretend this is simply "order" and "progress"; seemingly blind to their own ideological baggage like fish in water
Exploitation like that is in fact happening (see pretty much everything having to do with social media content moderation and RLHF to avoid disturbing content.
Also "paying to do a job" is not the moral panacea you seem to think it is.
Have a look at BBC translation to get a taste, and tell me its not hoax: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Since there isn't a single English (English learners generally get informed about the choice of UK vs US English only, but most English is spoken outside of UK and USA in other places and other dialects), but multiple different Englishes, any English speaker will probably find something to be surprised by, and there is an economic incentive to get data from people other than the relatively expensive native speakers of UK or USA English.