Moderators told The Guardian that the content they reviewed depicted graphic scenes of violence, child abuse, bestiality, murder, and sexual abuse.

Content moderators who worked on ChatGPT say they were traumatized by reviewing graphic content: ‘It has destroyed me completely.’::Moderators told The Guardian that the content they reviewed depicted graphic scenes of violence, child abuse, bestiality, murder, and sexual abuse.

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
    422·
    2 years ago

    He said that many of these passages centered on sexual violence and that the work caused him to grow paranoid about those around him. He said this damaged his mental state and his relationship with his family.

    Another former moderator, Alex Kairu, told the news outlet that what he saw on the job “destroyed me completely.” He said that he became introverted and that his physical relationship with his wife deteriorated.

    The moderators told The Guardian that the content up for review often depicted graphic scenes of violence, child abuse, bestiality, murder, and sexual abuse.

    A Sama spokesperson told the news outlet that workers were paid from $1.46 to $3.74 an hour. Time previously reported that the data labelers were paid less than $2 an hour to review content for OpenAI.

    Sam deserves to be sued to bankruptcy at this point.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      244·
      2 years ago

      Meanwhile Elon Musk is playing with his nipples at the thought of acquiring ChatGPT and then firing all these moderators

    • nxfsi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      They should be grateful, they’re being infinitely better paid than reddit mods.