OpenAI and Other AI Companies Pay $2 an Hour for Kenyan Jobs

> Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

Let me guess. SAMA had the classic sku/$/hr saas pricing.

> Wambalo, Nathan Nkunzimana and Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan were employed by SAMA, an American outsourcing company that hired for Meta and OpenAI. SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

It may be a fair wage, but if you're a middleman and take $10.50 of that $12.50, leaving workers with $2, you've left basic human decency far behind. Yachts don't come cheap, I guess.

Is SAMA associated with... uh... sama?