The Maintenance Class
Ghost work training ghost work
OpenAI’s ghost earned $12.50 per hour. The humans haunting those servers saw $1.32 of that.
The work itself was straightforward: read text passages, flag the ones describing child abuse, bestiality, murder. Label them so an AI model could learn what not to say. The workers in Nairobi sat at their screens, reading 150 to 250 of these passages per shift. B…
