Topic

AI data work

The contracted human labour behind AI systems (annotation, rating, red-teaming and content review), usually arranged through third-party staffing vendors.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

Hundreds of OpenAI contractors read whole ChatGPT conversations to score the model's replies

404 Media obtained instruction guides, Slack channels and real prompts from OpenAI's human review program. Reviewers see full chats and a summary of what the user asked for before, with the username stripped.

Publishers:404media.co

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption66
Hype gap−8
Incentives62
Confidence70

product1 publisher

Contractors grading ChatGPT replies see the whole chat and a summary of the user's memories

Leaked documents reported by 404 Media describe a review program codenamed Project Lily that pays hundreds of contractors over $50 an hour to read real conversations. Model training is on by default for Free, Plus and Pro accounts.

Publishers:tomsguide.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption65
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence52