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

DALL-E generated image from Time showing a seemingly endless view of African workers at desks in front of computer screens in a printmaking style

How did OpenAI do so much better with avoiding toxic, graphic, racist, disturbing, insulting, and other offensive material from ChatGPT4? According to TIME, by exploiting Kenyan workers, many of who were traumatized by the work. Another Dark Side of AI that is rarely talked about.


Image generated by TIME from DALL-E 2/OpenAI