ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Might Be Training Its AI Technology To Replace Some Software Engineers, Report Says

According to Semafor, OpenAI has quietly hired hundreds of international contractors to train its AI technology.
Some of them are training AI in software development, paving the way for possible replacements for some human programmers.
The OpenAI chatbot, ChatGPT, threatened to disrupt much of the industry in the months after its release.

According to a Semaphore report, OpenAI has quietly hired hundreds of international contractors to train in the development of its AI software.

Some of the contractors hired in the last 6 months from places like Latin America and Eastern Europe are said to be tasked with generating data to learn simple AI software development tasks.

Although OpenAI already has a product called Codex, which can convert natural language into working code, the company's hiring pipeline indicates it wants to advance the technology, creating a viable replacement for some human programmers.

Semaphore spoke with a South American engineer who was interviewing for a contractor position at OpenAI. As part of the process, the AI was tasked with finding bugs in the code and explaining how to fix them. The engineer told Semaphore that he believes the company wants to use training data in its AI technology.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

OpenAI also owns the Buzzy AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Since its launch late last year, it has already threatened to undermine education, journalism and the law. Software engineering can be added to the following list.

In fact, Insider recently reported that some Amazon employees have started using ChatGPT to help with coding, even though the company warns its employees not to share sensitive corporate information with the bot.