OpenAI has hired Kenyans for less than €2/hour to monitor content

chat It was one of the most impressive technological innovations of 2022, because an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate texts on any topic. time The creator is reportedly in talks with investors to raise $29 billion in funds, including a potential $10 billion investment from Microsoft.

After success, the same arguments indicate that OpenAI is “used Kenyan contract workers You earn less than two euros an hour. OpenAI’s outsourcing partner in Kenya was Sama, a San Francisco-based company that employs workers in Kenya, Uganda and India to catalog data for Silicon Valley clients such as Google, Meta and Microsoft.

Sama markets itself as an “ethical AI” company and has so far helped lift more than 50,000 people out of poverty. Partnership in artificial intelligence (A coalition of organizations Artificial intelligence to which OpenAI belongs) notes that “despite the critical role played by these data enrichment professionals, a growing body of research reveals Unstable working conditions faced by these workers.