They helped train Google's AI. Then they got fired after speaking out.

An explosion of interest in AI from businesses and consumers has kicked off an arms race between Google and its archrival Microsoft to develop and sell AI tools and put the tech into existing products, from Google Search to Microsoft Word. The boom was triggered by OpenAI, a much smaller company, which released its ChatGPT chatbot in November, astonishing the world with its ability to conduct cogent conversations, pass professional exams and write computer code. Experts attribute OpenAI's success in part to its use of human testers and trainers to refine the bot and teach it to be less offensive and more interesting than previous versions of the technology.