"My job is gone because of ChatGPT, and I was being invited to train the model to do the worst version of it imaginable. The idea depressed her. But her financial situation was increasingly dire, and she had to find a new place to live in a hurry, so she turned on her webcam and said hello to Melvin."
"She was added to a Slack channel, where it was clear she was entering a project already underway. Hundreds of people were busy writing examples of prompts someone might ask a chatbot, writing the chatbot's ideal response to those prompts, then creating a detailed checklist of criteria that defined that ideal response."
"Katya wasn't told whose AI she was training - managers referred to it only as the client - or what purpose the project served. But she enjoyed the work. She was having fun playing with the"
Katya, an unemployed worker, was recruited by Mercor, a company that sells data to train AI models. Initially skeptical about the opportunity, she eventually accepted a position due to financial pressure and the need to relocate. After interviewing with an AI named Melvin, she was hired and required to install monitoring software. Her role involved creating training data by writing chatbot prompts, crafting ideal responses, and developing evaluation criteria. Hundreds of workers participated in this digital assembly line, processing tasks that took several hours each. Katya found the work enjoyable despite not knowing which AI client she was training or the project's ultimate purpose.
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