People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

New Scientist 

The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with them, but several of these workers have admitted to that they simply get chatbots to do it instead. People who are paid to train new AI models by supplying them with high-quality conversation and tests are cheating and using chatbots like ChatGPT to do the job instead, multiple whistleblowers have told . The seemingly widespread practice risks undermining the future of AI, as it could lead to the "collapse" of more advanced models. Most AI models operating today were trained on text and data scraped from the internet . But as models have scaled up, requiring yet more training data, AI firms have begun using workers who carry out conversations and tests with AI, in the hope that the resulting high-quality data can improve the power and usefulness of future large language models (LLMs). These workers are normally employed by third parties, rather than AI companies directly, and are often working without full-time contracts and for low pay.