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People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
This is a control failure and it matters. Using synthetic AI to label training data while being paid for manual work is fraud, but it also signals a real problem: the data-labeling bottleneck is so obvious that workers are trying to circumvent it. For builders relying on data pipelines, this is a reminder that labeling quality and provenance are harder to guarantee than vendors claim. For OpenAI, it's a costly signal that their training infrastructure has visibility gaps.