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Title: People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/24/0618245/p...

404 Media reports "multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have
been fired for using AI to train the AI: That's not great for the models
themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training
companies working for OpenAI firing people for using AI when OpenAI's whole
thing is to make people use AI at work... OpenAI declined to comment on its
contractors being fired for using AI. Their article cites internal documents
and three contractors working on OpenAI-related projects which can include
more than ten thousand contractors: One contractor said they see people using
AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time, it's pretty much
the one thing that will get you kicked off ASAP." The person said, "in a
group of thousands there are tons that have been caught...." Two of the
sources said people have been fired or offboarded for using AI... One
contractor said they used AI while helping to train OpenAI's models and
shared what they presented as their termination letter. It said their
employer had identified issues with the "authenticity" of their work.... 404
Media spoke to a fourth contractor who has worked on training models for
various AI companies. They said they sometimes purposefully chose the worst
responses because they wanted to actively sabotage the models' training. "I
did feel guilty about doing this kind of work at the start," they said. "I
either pay zero attention to the results and choose randomly or purposely
choose the [worst] output. I'm not sure how much of a difference it actually
makes since there are hundreds of other people also rating prompt results,
but it does feel like I'm getting paid to make AI worse." Two of the
contractors worked for Mercor, the article reports, a company which last
month Nvidia reportedly discussed funding at a $20 billion valuation. Thanks
to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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