“A software developer in South America who completed a five-hour unpaid coding test for OpenAI told Semafor he was asked to tackle a series of two-part assignments.”
OpenAI brought on about 1,000 contractors in six months across Latin America and Eastern Europe, 40% of them programmers writing step-by-step explanations of their code. Sam Altman brags about a headcount of 375 and leaves the contractors out. The training data starts with a five-hour unpaid test. Cheap programmers abroad are being paid to teach the model that replaces them.