GPT 6's Blender skills reportedly trained by sub-Saharan artists paid $5/hour
Firm-Ad-2446 · reddit · 2026-09-07
A Reddit user claims a friend — a Blender artist hired through a third-party agency, reportedly from sub-Saharan Africa — was paid $5/hour to do RLHF work for GPT 6 Astra: operating Blender with screen recording and guiding the model toward better outputs.
The poster argues the model's praised Blender capabilities rest on exploiting cheap labor in poorer countries. The claim is unverified secondhand testimony, but consistent with the industry's known large-scale outsourced annotation supply chains.
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