On: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic

[tofuahdude]

Rising supply of jobs increases wages and quality of life. This is a good thing.

The wages they're paying are substantially higher than all the local averages. This is a good thing.

How is this "severely exploiting"?

The alternative is that the Kenyan economy remain isolated, small, and impoverished. This is a bad thing.

[fzeroracer → tofuahdude]

You're using the exact same logic as those that were using child labour for coal mining in the 1800s.

They're being specifically exploited because that is what the company set out to do. You could argue any number of benefits as a smokescreen but the reality is that they hired people in Kenya because they knew they could exploit them. Everything else is post-hoc rationalization.

[tofuahdude → fzeroracer]

Except that nowhere did I advocate for child labor. That is obviously abhorrent and clear false equivalence.

Are the employees adults? Yes. Are they being forced to work there? No.

Are they choosing / trying to work there because the pay is higher than their alternatives? Yes.

Very different than child labor.