The Mechanical Turk of Modern AI: How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) Actually Works
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You type a prompt into ChatGPT. It responds with a thoughtful, measured, and remarkably polite answer. It does not get angry. It does not get sarcastic. It does not tell you to Google it yourself. You assume this is just how the model is. It is not. The model is not naturally polite. It was trained to be polite. Behind the scenes, thousands of human raters spent countless hours comparing AI responses, selecting the "better" one, and shaping the model's behavior through reward signals. This is…
1Key Takeaways
- It responds with a thoughtful, measured, and remarkably polite answer.
- It does not tell you to Google it yourself.
- You assume this is just how the model is.
- Behind the scenes, thousands of human raters spent countless hours comparing AI responses, selecting the "better" one, and shaping the model's behavior through reward signals.
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