OpenAI reportedly requires contractors to upload real work from previous jobs

OpenAI reportedly requires contractors to upload real work from previous jobs

OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI ask outside contractors to upload real work they’ve done on previous and current jobs, according to Report in Wired.

This appears to be part of a larger strategy across AI companies hiring contractors to generate high-quality training data in the hopes that this will eventually allow their models to automate more white collar work.

In the case of OpenAI, a company presentation reportedly asks contractors to describe tasks they’ve done in other jobs and upload examples of “real on-the-job work” they’ve done.In reality Finished.” These examples could include “tangible output (not a summary of the file, but the actual file), e.g., Word doc, PDF, Powerpoint, Excel, image, repo.”

The company reportedly requires contractors to delete proprietary and personally identifiable information before uploading, and directs them to ChatGPT’s “Superstar Scrubbing” tool to do so.

However, intellectual property lawyer Evan Brown told Wired that any AI lab that takes this approach “puts itself at great risk” with an approach that requires “a lot of trust in its contractors to decide what is classified and what is not.”

An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment.