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1. jrflo · 1790087384 · focus · HN ↗

   Clickbait title, they fired contractors for using AI to label data, which defeats the purpose of labeling data in this case.

   1. Good4boothee · 1790089798 · focus · HN ↗

      Why exactly it is clickbaity? It makes perfect sense to me, I understand title as: people told not use AI fired for using AI - without any need for additional context. Mechanical Turk was shut down for exactly same reason, it was always a race to the bottom and using LLMs was cheaper than even third world gig workers. Verifying if task were done by humans is probably harder than doing them in the first place.

      1. WarmWash · 1790090074 · focus · HN ↗

         Training is far more broad than labeling

         "People training OAI AI" has a colloquial meaning of "People working at OAI"

         So the headline is built to imply:

         "People who work for OAI got fired for using AI to do their job"

         When a non-clickbait headline would be

         "3rd party workers contracted to distill their human knowledge fired for using AI instead"

         Not nearly as "clicky"

         1. smohare · 1790092468 · focus · HN ↗

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