Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by coffeebeqn on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:33AM
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This also seems like a much better service job than the horrible scarring moderation jobs at facebook or factory work for apple. Heck maybe even better than most Amazon US jobs at the warehouses
Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by satvikpendem on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:05PM
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Well, maybe not quite:
> Almost more interesting in that article I found that Sama, the Kenyan company, was also asked to collect CP and brutal/gore images for OpenAI. After delivering 1400 images, Sama cancelled the contract as this was even too much for them. OpenAI then talked about "miscommunication" and they actually did not really want those CP images. Well, they made its own category for it and asked Sama to collect images of several other categories, but somehow it was lost in communication that for one of theses categories, no images should be collected. Because they are illegal. OpenAI swears they never opened the images they received (and paid for).
Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by truculent on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:45AM
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"I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."
Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by gowld on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:15AM
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> The San Francisco–based A.I. startup is projecting $1 billion in revenue by 2024, as was first reported by Reuters and independently verified by Fortune. OpenAI only generated approximately $35 million in revenue in 2022, sources say, and the company is heavily loss-making at the moment.
As another poster said- in Kenya a job is a job and they still paid above average. Money going to Kenya is a good thing. They are doing the work so it must be worth it.