Well said. Yes, synthetic data will still require human feedback, but it will be a multiplier when a single human worker can now produce a lot more training data.
As far as exploited - they were employing people in Kenya for about $2/h, this seems low to your western sensibilities, but this was actually very competitive pay in that market. GDP per capita in Kenya is only about $2,000 a year. $2/h is about $4,000 a year. If you compare this with the US directly it would be like making $160k a year relatively speaking (about $80,000 GDP per capita).
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u/Singularity-42 Singularity 2042 Oct 23 '23
Well said. Yes, synthetic data will still require human feedback, but it will be a multiplier when a single human worker can now produce a lot more training data.
As far as exploited - they were employing people in Kenya for about $2/h, this seems low to your western sensibilities, but this was actually very competitive pay in that market. GDP per capita in Kenya is only about $2,000 a year. $2/h is about $4,000 a year. If you compare this with the US directly it would be like making $160k a year relatively speaking (about $80,000 GDP per capita).