OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by fragmede on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:32AM (#34428882)

OpenAI is operating rationally as a corporation, and choosing labor, legally, in a cheaper country - if they were to pay US wages, why not hire American workers? The entire point is because it's cheaper. There's a different world where OpenAI chose to hire Americans for this job, but it's simply cheaper for them not to. The loss of American jobs is a whole other discussion, but it's the very economics of the situation that drove them to do that in the first place.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by bmitc on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:43AM (#34429090)

That’s a very narrow minded view of economics though. Minimizing costs and wages is not the only optimization that matters.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:12PM (#34430509)

true, But it generally has helped raise billions out of poverty.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by ninjagoo on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:22PM (#34436667)

that were first thrust into poverty to start with by a different system of exploitation.

I have to admire the beauty of this argument as it has occurred over time - let's exploit them using force and make them poor (enriching ourselves), then use the poverty to justify paying them less (enriching ourselves), using the argument that we are slowly lifting these billions out of poverty (enriching our souls).

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by mensetmanusman on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:47AM (#34440188)

That initial system of exploitation is what the US fought against in a revolution. Everyone was exploited at some time in history.

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