{"id":231829,"date":"2026-01-11T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/231829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:28:07","slug":"openai-is-reportedly-asking-contractors-to-upload-real-work-from-past-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/231829\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are asking third-party contractors to upload real work that they did in past and current jobs, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\">a report in Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This appears to be part of a larger strategy across AI companies that are hiring contractors to generate high-quality training data in the hopes that this will eventually allow their models to automate more white-collar work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In OpenAI\u2019s case, a company presentation reportedly asks contractors to describe tasks they\u2019ve performed at other jobs and upload examples of \u201creal, on-the-job work\u201d that they\u2019ve \u201cactually done.\u201d These examples can include \u201ca concrete output (not a summary of the file, but the actual file), e.g., Word doc, PDF, Powerpoint, Excel, image, repo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company reportedly instructs contractors to delete proprietary and personally identifiable information before uploading, and it points them to a ChatGPT \u201cSuperstar Scrubbing\u201d tool to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, intellectual property lawyer Evan Brown told Wired that any AI lab taking this approach is \u201cputting itself at great risk\u201d with an approach that requires \u201ca lot of trust in its contractors to decide what is and isn\u2019t confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 13-15, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,125980,85,46,1748,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-231829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-handshake-ai","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}