An outsourcing firm cut dozens of contractors who were training the language model behind OpenAI's ChatGPT

Sat, 04/22/2023 - 08:00

graphic of AI tech worker — Invisible Technologies, a San Francisco-based tech contracting agency, laid off dozens of contractors in March who train OpenAI's language models.
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Invisible Technologies laid off 31 contractors hired to train OpenAI's GPT, Insider has learned.
The contractors were hired to improve the AI model's abilities like creative writing and coding.
OpenAI has reportedly hired about 1,000 contractors globally as its ChatGPT AI gains popularity.

Dozens of contractors who helped train the OpenAI language models that power ChatGPT were laid off in March, according to a person familiar with the matter and documentation of internal communications.