>Agents, the most junior data labelers who made up the majority of the three teams, were paid a basic salary of 21,000 Kenyan shillings ($170) per month
Based on my quick and dirty googling, it looks like this is an above average salary for Nairobi.
>Are all the sweatshop and slave labor[1] jobs created by Zara good for those children and slaves? You get cheap clothes out of it after all. But is it really helping anyone other than Zara, and their CEO who is worth ..checks notes... 50+ billion dollars?
You haven't established a connection between OpenAI and slave labour. So this is irrelevant and detracts from your point by costing you credibility.
> If this signals to other businesses that Kenya is a great place for cheap labor and little regulation, it could very easily be turn bad for many Kenyans.
>Agents, the most junior data labelers who made up the majority of the three teams, were paid a basic salary of 21,000 Kenyan shillings ($170) per month
Based on my quick and dirty googling, it looks like this is an above average salary for Nairobi.
>Are all the sweatshop and slave labor[1] jobs created by Zara good for those children and slaves? You get cheap clothes out of it after all. But is it really helping anyone other than Zara, and their CEO who is worth ..checks notes... 50+ billion dollars?
You haven't established a connection between OpenAI and slave labour. So this is irrelevant and detracts from your point by costing you credibility.
> If this signals to other businesses that Kenya is a great place for cheap labor and little regulation, it could very easily be turn bad for many Kenyans.
That's for Kenyans to decide.