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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by stale2002 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:06PM (#34430421)
> My whole point is that it's really hard to ever classify exploitation as "good".

Well, you could ask people from Kenya what they think about this stuff, instead of speaking on their behalf.

I believe someone from there even commented on this, in the thread.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by dirheist on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:17PM (#34430574)
Yeah, like if you removed chatgpt from the equation what would change? A couple hundred-thousand moderators would not have an above-average hourly wage and would instead need to find another international company or a domestic company to hire them who are all abusing the lack of unions and low wages.
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