[SwetDrems]

I feel like comments here are too focused on the $2 per hour aspect and not enough on the emotional abuse that this labour entails. Sure, maybe it's an "average wage", but the people performing this work are suffering mental trauma because for hours upon hours they are subjected to reading stories and viewing images of sexual abuse, assault, gore. The people performing this sort of extremely difficult emotional labour should be taken care of. It is disgusting for OpenAI to pay so little and at the same time have such little respect for humanity and decency.

[alpos]

It's worth noting that OpenAI actually paid around six times that amount for this work.

It's also worth noting that Sama actually did provide for their employee's mental health. They didn't do a good job of it but trying and failing at a thing doesn't quite qualify at the level of disgust imo. Especially not for the company that was outsourcing this.

It's also worth noting that even if those of us in the peanut gallery would not trust the word of either OpenAI or Sama, it is not unreasonable for OpenAI's team to have trusted that Sama was doing what they said they were with regard to providing for their own employees mental health.

[hnarn]

What part of moderating ChatGPT involves looking at images?

[SwetDrems]

Of course images are not relevant to ChatGPT (I never specified ChatGPT), but to other models being trained by OpenAI.

From the article:

"That month, Sama began pilot work for a separate project for OpenAI: collecting sexual and violent images—some of them illegal under U.S. law—to deliver to OpenAI."