No doubt Sam Altman is open to hearing about how to purchase African labor without any of the publicity downside - hit him up for a few mill. ChatGPT is riding high, it does not need Nike style bad publicity to bring the story down.

You would need to be actually ethical rather than marketing ethical - I don't know you so I don't know if you know the difference. Certainly there's no shortage of Silicon Valley "characters" who don't.

It's a very powerful "good news story" to sell to potential clients:

--> lower cost workforce

--> positive life benefit for the African people, lifting people to better lives

--> western style work protections at African costs

--> "publicity positive" for buyers versus "publicity negative"

You would not believe the power of "lower cost workforce" in gaining new clients.

If you know a bunch of African programmers then it should not be hard to find work for them at $x/hour to western clients.

Any employer that wishes to show it cares for African people and wants to help them to a better life really SHOULD be buying services from your new company.