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> Apparently much of ChatGPT's purple prose and occasional rare word usage is because it's speaking African-accented English because they used Kenyan/Nigerian w
by ayewo 2y ago
> Apparently much of ChatGPT's purple prose and occasional rare word usage is because it's speaking African-accented English because they used Kenyan/Nigerian workers for training.
Do you have a source for the 2nd part of your claim that they use Nigerians for RLHF?
I’m know OpenAI use Kenyans via Sama / Samasource [0] and it has been discussed here [1] before.
0: https://www.sama.com/ https://www.sama.com/
1: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421
- astrange 2y agoMostly that some of the words it uses like "delve" are common in Nigerian English, according to them anyway, and they consider themselves especially big fans of writing purple prose the same way it does. https://www.nairaland.com/3716282/nigerians-use-english-language-bbc https://www.nairaland.com/3716282/nigerians-use-english-lang...
- ayewo 2y agoDelve is not commonly used Nigerian English nor is it common in the corrupt form of English that is widely spoken in Nigeria called pidgin. The link you shared doesn’t really back up your claim though. It merely talks about government communications and reporting by the press that tend to use unfamiliar words when simple words would have done the same job. That’s a phenomenon that’s not unique to Nigerians though.