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It is truely incredible how all of these ‘AI’ (imo not AI, just machine learning algorithms) systems are just Mechanical Turks.
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, according to three Sama employees.
Sounds bad but average monthly income in Kenya is 20,123 shillings.
All workers are abused and discarded later. “Lifting people out of poverty” is just an inverse description of the reserve army of labor.
It’s still extracted labor-value. In an equal exchange companies like these would be driving millions of dollars into the African economy, instead of taking advantage of economic inequality and CoL inequity. Data labeling jobs in the U.S. are usually 40k-50k a year jobs.
And median household income in the US is $70,784/yr so it would seem very likely these Kenyan laborers would get a standard of living no different (possibly even better) than that of US laborers performing the same job. The only difference is the surplus value that can be extracted from each worker.
That’s household income, so on median that is one person making 40,000k a year. But you’re being obtuse. This is bullshit and you know it, rates of currency exchange are drastically different between the two countries, this is just obfuscation of labor-value. If a worker in the U.S. can work the same job and then move to Kenya and live a life of luxury, then very clearly these workers are getting fucked for the global value of their labor, as it is a global market that ChatGPT sells and trades within, not particular to the Kenyan market. This is money that could, and in an actually fair market, should, be going through to fuel and bring the Kenyan consumer economy to U.S. value standards.
This is similar to how the standard of living varies wildly within the U.S, however, the standard of exchange and exploitation is not based off of the local value provided to the laborer, but the global market profit that is extracted from the laborers work. This is essential to the understanding of how a labor aristocracy develops and exists. Workers within the imperial core are given consumption privileges not afforded to the workers of other nations for the same work, and therefore have no material incentive to seize the means of production even though the value of their labor is also vastly exploited. We give up the steak for strips of fat from the table, because at least it is not the shit from the heels.
