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I think a lot of people are unaware that these models have an enormous human training component performed through companies such as Amazon Mechanical Truk and d
by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
I think a lot of people are unaware that these models have an enormous human training component performed through companies such as Amazon Mechanical Truk and dataannotation.tech. Called Human Intelligence Tasks, a large number of people have been working in this area for close to a decade. Dataannotation Tech claims to have over 100k workers. From Cloud Research,
"How Many Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Are There in 2019? In a recent research article, we reported that there are 250,810 MTurk workers worldwide who have completed at least one Human Intelligence Task (HIT) posted through the TurkPrime platform. More than 226,500 of these workers are based in the US."
- mcbishop 3y agoHere's an account of a person in Africa that helped train (wading thru gnarly explicit content in the process): https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/he-helped-train-chatgpt-it-traumatized https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/he-helped-train-chatgpt-it-t...
- boringuser2 3y agoThis reads like lawsuit bait.
- GartzenDeHaes 3y agoAnother thing that people don't know is that a lot of the safe-ified output is hand crafted. Part of "safety" is that a human has to identify the offensive content, decide what's offensive about it, and write a response blurb to educate the user and direct them to safety.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoThey don't want to know how the sausage is made.