**OpenAI’s Bold Request: Can You Share Your Secret Work?**
I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one. OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence organization, is reportedly asking contractors to share real work from their previous and present jobs. Like, what’s behind this new trend?
So, according to a recent report, OpenAI and Handshake AI, a coaching knowledge firm, are asking contractors to upload actual work they’ve done in the past. This makes sense, as AI companies are increasingly relying on contractors to generate high-quality training data, with the goal of automating more white-collar work. Think: contractors can provide the goods, and AI companies can take it from there.
Now, OpenAI is taking it to the next level by asking contractors to share their previous work duties and add examples of “actual, on-the-job work” they’ve “truly executed”. This could include concrete outputs like Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, or images.
But hold up, what does this mean for contractors? Essentially, they’re being asked to trust OpenAI with their intellectual property, including proprietary and personally identifiable data. This has experts like mental property lawyer Evan Brown warning that AI labs taking this approach are “placing themselves at great risk” due to the lack of trust in their contractors.
And, of course, OpenAI has declined to comment on this matter. But the implications are huge. As AI development continues to evolve, can we expect to see more of these requests from other AI organizations? Will contractors be willing to share their work for the sake of AI progress? Only time will tell.
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