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Wall Street JournalCleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers
Contractors in Kenya say they were traumatized by effort to screen out descriptions of violence and sexual abuse during run-up to OpenAI’s hit chatbot
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'No job for humans': the harrowing work of content moderators in Kenya
By France24
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Can Africa’s first content moderators union change Big Tech?
Moderators are the safety net of the internet, but workers in Africa say their own safety isn’t being protected.
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The Wall STREET JOURNAL SPOTIFY PODCAST
ChatGPT is one of the most successful tech products ever launched. And crucial to that success is a group of largely unknown data workers in Kenya.
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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI modelsNew List Item
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals
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Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
By BILLY PERRIGO
January 2023
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LINKEDIN PRESENTS 'BIG TECHNOLOGY PODCAST'
Richard Mathenge was part of a team of contractors in Nairobi, Kenya who trained OpenAI's GPT models. He did so as a team lead at Sama, an AI training company that partnered on the project. In this episode of Big Technology Podcast, Mathenge tells the story of his experience.
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Workers that made ChatGPT less harmful ask lawmakers to stem alleged exploitation by Big Tech
By Annie Njanja @annienjanja, July 2023