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Actually, the dirty secret is that a lot of human work (at below minimum wage) went into training and refining the AI models:

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

And billion-dollar companies made their money off it:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/04/11/how-alexa...

That’s the dirty secret of why ChatGPT 4 is better. But they’ll tell you it has to do with chaining ChatGPT 3’s together, more fine tuning etc. They go to these poor countries and recruit people to work on training the AI.

Not to mention all the uncompensated work of humans around the world who put their content up on the Web.



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