Kenyan workers were paid less than $2/hour to remove toxic content from ChatGPT

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According to reporter (*), The OpenAI built an additional security mechanism – powered by artificial intelligence (IA) – with the aim of detecting toxic language, such as violent, sexist and racist comments, and removing it from their platforms.

To do this, he hired the sama: a San Francisco, United States-based company that employs workers in Kenya, Uganda and India to label data for Silicon Valley clients as Google, Meta e Microsoft.

A TEAM found that the net salary of employees of the sama it ranged from $1,32 to $2 per hour, depending on seniority and performance. 😔

A OpenAI is negotiating with investors to raise funds. A Microsoft announced that it will invest “billions” to expand its association with the company, according to a joint statement from the two companies released this Monday (23).

 This investment can make OpenAI, founded in San Francisco in 2015 with the aim of building super-intelligent machines, one of the artificial intelligence most valuable in the world. 🤑

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