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OpenAI Reportedly Pays Contractors $50+ an Hour to Review ChatGPT Chats

OpenAI uses contractors to review real ChatGPT prompts. Image: Jonathan Kemper/Unsplash

Leaked materials suggest OpenAI contractors review some ChatGPT conversations, raising new questions about human review, training settings, and user privacy.

Sep 15, 2026

Some ChatGPT conversations are being reviewed by human contractors as part of OpenAI’s model-improvement work, according to leaked internal materials reported by 404 Media.

Under an internal project reportedly called “Project Lily,” reviewers grade model responses, summarize user intent, and flag behaviors such as robotic phrasing or excessive agreement. The materials also indicate that OpenAI uses automated privacy filtering before conversations reach reviewers.

Consumer AI chats should not be treated as private correspondence, especially when conversations may be used for model improvement.

Inside Project Lily

According to 404 Media, contractors earn over $50 an hour through intermediary firms like Crossing Hurdles and Mercor to review selected conversation streams and score generated replies from 1 to...

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