OpenAI and other tech companies use numerous contract workers to help train artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT.<\/p>\n
An NBC News report<\/strong><\/a> recently highlighted the often-overlooked contribution of these workers.<\/p>\n The media house spoke to one such worker \u2014 34-year-old Kansas resident Alexej Savreaux \u2014 who has worked as a data labelled and AI trainer for multiple startups, including OpenAI.<\/p>\n Savreaux is among many that help fine-tune AI systems by teaching them how to analyse data and respond with the appropriate text and images.<\/p>\n He previously worked in several so-called “low-skill” jobs, including as a fast food cook, custodian, and junk hauler.<\/p>\n As an AI trainer, his primary task is giving feedback to ChatGPT, including sentences, labels, and other information, for the AI language model to learn.<\/p>\n “We are grunt workers, but there would be no AI language systems without it,” said Savreux.<\/p>\n “You can design all the neural networks you want, you can get all the researchers involved you want, but without labellers, you have no ChatGPT. You have nothing.”<\/p>\n Savreaux got paid $15 (R276) an hour for his work on ChatGPT.<\/p>\n According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics<\/strong><\/a>, the country’s average hourly wage in March 2023 was more than double that \u2014 at $33.20 (R610).<\/p>\n A Time investigation previously found<\/strong><\/a> that OpenAI had paid Kenyan contract workers $2 (R37) per hour to help teach ChatGPT to be less toxic.<\/p>\n However, that is more than Kenya’s average hourly income of $1.25.<\/p>\n Partnership on AI programme lead for AI, labour, and the economy, Sonam Jindal, told NBC News that labelling and training could be a high-quality job created by AI.<\/p>\n Her organisation previously warned there would be a surge in demand for the type of “data enrichment” work involved in AI training.<\/p>\n It published guidelines for fair compensation and improved labour practices in the industry.<\/p>\n To date, only Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind has publicly committed to these guidelines.<\/p>\n Behind the increasingly intelligent responses of AI language models like ChatGPT is a large low-wage contract workforce that helps train them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":479605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,83065,86119,42494,167,45266,86111,35065],"class_list":["post-490505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-data-labelling","tag-deepmind","tag-google","tag-openai","tag-partnership-on-ai","tag-tech-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490549,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490505\/revisions\/490549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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