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Kenyan Data Annotators Allegedly Exposed to Graphic Content for OpenAI's AI
Sama AI's Kenyan contractors were reportedly asked with excessively low pay to annotate a large volume of disturbing content to improve OpenAI's generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, and whose contract was terminated prior to completion by Sama AI.
- Date it happened
- 2021-11-01
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT, Large language models, OpenAI large language models
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