Incident 450: Kenyan Data Annotators Allegedly Exposed to Graphic Content for OpenAI's AI

Description: Sama AI's Kenyan contractors were reportedly asked with excessively low pay to annotate a large volume of disturbing content to improve OpenAI's generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, and whose contract was terminated prior to completion by Sama AI.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Kenyan Sama AI employees.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
450
Report Count
7
Incident Date
2021-11-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.