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		pastacacioepepe on Jan 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hou... That's not the point. Could OpenAI have afforded it if they had to pay first-world wages? Probably not. What kind of business model is one that relies on exploitation of extreme poverty in order to succeed?

yoavm on Jan 18, 2023 [–]

> What kind of business model is one that relies on exploitation of extreme poverty in order to succeed?

that's a very good question, but asking it as if it is a problem of OpenAI and not a problem of literally all of our economy sounds a little strange to me.

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