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# OpenAI Pays Contractors $50 Hour to Review Chats of 900 Million Users

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**Published:** 2026-09-15T00:06:21.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** openai, llm, safety, data\-privacy, contractors, gpt, privacy, data\-scraping

## Summary

An internal program called Project Lily uses human reviewers to analyze live ChatGPT interactions to determine if the model

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/openai-pays-contractors-50-hour-to-review-chats-of-900-million-users-af161702>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/openai-pays-contractors-50-hour-to-review-chats-of-900-million-users-af161702>)