OpenAI and Handshake AI reportedly asked contractors to upload real past work

OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are reportedly asking third-party contractors to upload real work they did in past and current jobs, according to a Wired report.

A company presentation reportedly asks contractors to describe tasks theyve performed at other jobs and upload examples of "real, on-the-job work" they have "actually done." Those examples can include "a concrete output (not a summary of the file, but the actual file), e.g., Word doc, PDF, Powerpoint, Excel, image, repo." The companies reportedly instruct contractors to delete proprietary and personally identifiable information before uploading and point them to a ChatGPT "Superstar Scrubbing" tool to do so. Wired said this appears to be part of a larger strategy across AI companies to hire contractors to generate high-quality training data aimed at automating more white-collar work.

Intellectual property lawyer Evan Brown told Wired that any AI lab taking this approach is "putting itself at great risk" and that it requires "a lot of trust in its contractors to decide what is and isnt confidential." An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment.

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