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'Human Data Advisors' on 4o image gen (Mar 2025); InstructGPT/RLHF first author; GPT-4 IF data collection lead source — evidence dated 2025-03
Shapes what 'good data' means.
How OpenAI buys data
Has a dedicated Human Data team that 'turns human feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation' via bespoke campaigns with 'external vendors and AI trainers' and has open PM/TPM/EM/TLM roles on it (2025-26 job posts). Ended its Scale AI relationship after Meta's stake (Jun 2025); reported to be a major revenue source for Mercor and to use Surge and Handshake, while building in-house data capacity. GDPval (Oct 2025) and HealthBench (May 2025, 262 physicians) show it buys large expert-graded eval sets. Image models ship with a named 'Data & Evaluation' team (Dec 2025 credits).
A central Human Data team (PMs, TPMs, engineers) works with all research teams and vendors. Glaese, a former Human Data lead, is now VP Research & Safety (Jul 2026). Image generation sits under Multimodal (Dhariwal), with its own data leads and an 18-person Data & Evaluation group, plus Model Behavior. Sora was shut down in Mar 2026 and Peebles left in Apr 2026. Image work was folded into GPT Image 2 / 2.5.
Known vendors: mercor, surge-ai, handshake-ai, scale-ai (ended Jun 2025)
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