{"slug": "openai-has-quality-raters-ai-trainers-they-cheated-with-ai", "title": "OpenAI Has Quality Raters, AI Trainers, & They Cheated With AI", "summary": "OpenAI has fired multiple contractors hired to improve its AI models after they used AI to train the AI, according to a 404 Media report. 404 Media found that OpenAI employs thousands of contractors as AI trainers, and that some were terminated for using AI tools in their own work. SEO analyst Glenn Gabe noted on X that the roughly 10,000 raters resemble Google's search quality rater program, adding that \"quality\" is relative.", "body_md": "As you know, Google has thousands of [quality raters](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-has-search-quality-raters-globally-23260.html) they use to help test and improve the search results and AI results. OpenAI does the same thing, with AI trainers according to a report by [404 Media](https://www.404media.co/people-training-openais-ai-fired-for-using-ai-to-train-the-ai/).\n\nAs Glenn Gabe noted on [X](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2102729840868593892), \"Quality Raters, but \"quality\" is relative :) 10K raters... sounds similar to Google -> People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI.\"\n\n404 Media wrote, \"OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.\" The funny thing is many of them were fired because they used AI for their job. \"404 Media has found multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI’s models have been fired for using AI to train the AI,\" was reported.\n\nQuality Raters, but \"quality\" is relative :) 10K raters... sounds similar to Google -> People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI\n\n\"Some AI models already exhibit signs of “model collapse,” which is where AI models further trained on AI-generated text can…\n\n[September 23, 2026](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2102729840868593892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nThe irony but yes, I am sure all these AI platforms and search engines have quality raters and trainers.\n\nForum discussion at [X](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2102729840868593892).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-has-quality-raters-ai-trainers-they-cheated-with-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.seroundtable.com/openai-quality-raters-ai-trainers-42149.html", "published_at": "2026-09-25 11:51:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-25 13:30:45.459302+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "404 Media", "Glenn Gabe", "Google", "X"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-has-quality-raters-ai-trainers-they-cheated-with-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-has-quality-raters-ai-trainers-they-cheated-with-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-has-quality-raters-ai-trainers-they-cheated-with-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-has-quality-raters-ai-trainers-they-cheated-with-ai.jsonld"}}