Xai Lays Off 500 Workers From Data Annotation Team
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XAI has laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team, potentially making skilled labor available for open-source projects, such as creating RLHF data sets.
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nickpsecurity
4 months ago
Anyone trying to create open-source, RLHF, data sets now has 500 laborers available to help. Think OpenAssistant but fir instruct, coding, summarization, etc.
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