“This wasn’t just about unpaid work—it was about respect,” noted one anonymous contributor quoted in the Hugging Face commentary. “OpenAI treated our input like raw material, not creative expertise. It’s not collaboration; it’s extraction.”
This sounds weird. Surely one does not offer their contributions for free for something like OpenAI. Did they not write an agreement? Where they unhappy with the terms? Sounds like they should have negotiate the terms upfront.
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“This wasn’t just about unpaid work—it was about respect,” noted one anonymous contributor quoted in the Hugging Face commentary. “OpenAI treated our input like raw material, not creative expertise. It’s not collaboration; it’s extraction.”
This sounds weird. Surely one does not offer their contributions for free for something like OpenAI. Did they not write an agreement? Where they unhappy with the terms? Sounds like they should have negotiate the terms upfront.