People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
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Trainers being fired for using AI to do labeling work shows how fragile current data quality and labor contracts are in the model pipeline. If you rely on human-in-the-loop vendors, you should be asking explicitly how they detect AI-generated annotations and what that means for your evals, bias audits, and downstream liability.
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