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 churchill on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:05PM (#34431351)

I think "self-anointed do-gooder" captures the idea perfectly. Many of these folks want to help Africans and many low-income countries, but arguments on Hacker News and government decrees don't help the poor.

Only free trade, preferably between rich and poor countries, can lift the poor out of poverty. Initially, it starts in a way you might consider "unfair" but soon, that unskilled labor learns better skills and starts to negotiate better wages.

So, like I said, many of these "do-gooders" sincerely want to help Africans but their approach hurts even more.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by wardedVibe on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:42PM (#34431924)

It's complicated, because some of our best examples of recently successfully developing economies (Japan, Korea, China) actually had pretty heavy state intervention and tariffs to protect growing industries.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by bloodyplonker22 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:37PM (#34431844)

In addition, many of these virtue signalers are not donating their money or time to help with anything that they virtue signal on.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by th0ma5 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:41PM (#34434153)

You see this in conservative virtue signaling so much, hardly any increase in adoption rates, not staying home if they're sick, etc

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