OpenAI (ChatGPT)

You have an AI project that can find and remove illegal, disturbing content. But you have to train the AI on what the bad content is. Do you hire Kenyans for $2/hr to find it and submit it so the AI can learn to remove it?

"Classifying and filtering harmful [text and images] is a necessary step in minimizing the amount of violent and sexual content included in training data and creating tools that can detect harmful content," OpenAI said in a Time statement.

Still, the nature of the work has caused severe distress for some data labelers, according to the report. One employee called his work "torture" after he was assigned to read an excerpt about a man engaging in a sexual act with a dog with a child present — an experience so traumatic that it gave him recurring visions, he told Time.


 
LIGHTS OUT FOR ALL OF US? LIKE SKYNET STYLE??

"The bad case — and I think this is important to say — is like lights out for all of us," Altman said. "I'm more worried about an accidental misuse case in the short term...So I think it's like impossible to overstate the importance of AI safety and alignment work. I would like to see much, much more happening."


 
ChatGPT is free for now, but OpenAI, the company behind it, is reportedly considering a monthly charge of $42. Asion said “it’s not even a question” he would pay for access. “I would easily pay $100 or $200 a year for something like this,” he said. “I’d be crazy not to.”

I should really try it out myself before they start charging.
 
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