OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI
Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not…
OpenAI, an AI company, has implemented a policy forbidding its contractors from using AI tools while reviewing user prompts. This directive is in place to ensure the quality of the AI's responses by maintaining a human touch. However, a report by 404 Media revealed that many contractors were disregarding this rule and relying on AI to assist them in their work.
This practice, known as "model collapse," could negatively impact AI models' performance by causing them to underperform compared to their predecessors. OpenAI warns contractors of the consequences, but despite the stark warnings, the report suggests this behavior was common among the thousands of contractors involved.
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