According to research by TIME, ChatGPT became what it is today thanks to cheap Kenyan employees.
Chatbot developed by artificial intelligence company OpenAI ChatGPTattracted attention all over the world with his abilities and creativity. Artificial intelligence could write an app from scratch and offer original ideas for movies, TV shows, and all kinds of content.
But when it comes to ethical debates, misuse of language, and biased comments, he stops himself and says “It would not be appropriate for me to say thatHe makes sentences like “. Here, the establishment of these sentences, according to the new information that has emerged, Thanks to Kenyan employees took place.
Unknown background of ChatGPT:
In its extensive research, TIME magazine shed light on the process OpenAI followed to create the filter of artificial intelligence. OpenAI, which has been serving companies such as Microsoft, Google and Meta to date,SamaHe collaborated with a company called ‘.
Although collaborating with an outside company on this was normal, what wasn’t normal was Sama’s methods. The San Francisco-based company serving Silicon Valley companies, especially from Kenya and India was hiring.
Moreover, these employees, depending on the title and performance per hour $1.32 to $2 fee was taking. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that the company is collaborating with Kenyan employee Sama, but did not provide any information about the fees.
What’s more, what employees encountered wasn’t quite normal:
In order to enable ChatGPT to provide exemplary comments, written content of every imaginable profanity, every imaginable crime, and science fiction had to be read and filtered. An employee involved in this process also shared his experience.
The anonymous employee came across an article specifically depicting a man having sexual intercourse with a dog and a young child in front of him. This article, which is just one example, was enough to have the following effect on the employee:
“It was torture. You’ll read a number of statements like this one during the week. When you get to Friday, you get uncomfortable thinking about that picture.”
Cheap employee, high earnings:
Internal correspondence between OpenAI and Sama, with OpenAI’s commitment to Sama towards the end of 2021 total payment of 200 thousand dollars showed that he did. A total of 3 dozen employees were divided into 3 separate groups, and each group focused on one topic.
So how much did the employees get paid?
According to the information conveyed by three employees, employees work 9 hours a day and 150 to 250 pieces of text was reading. Each piece could be in the range of 100 to 1,000 words. Starting with a simple calculation, the lowest monthly fee is 237.6; the highest monthly fee was 360 dollars.
The agreement between OpenAI and Sama is that OpenAI will pay the company per hour. $12.50 He said he would pay.
A Sama representative told TIME that the hourly wage $1.46 to $3.74 indicated that it varied between He also stated that OpenAI’s $12.50 fee includes fees such as infrastructure expenses and advances, apart from salaries.
On the other hand, Sama ended its cooperation with OpenAI in February 2022. According to information TIME obtained from an employee, the rationale was Sama’s desire not to expose its employees to dangerous content.