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by boeingUH60 1242 days ago
You mean the same Sama that charged OpenAI $12.50 per hour for a contract and paid their African contractors $2 or less an hour?

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

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Discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421 (570 comments)

(Warning: Shitshow)

Time... aren't exactly being truthful. They constantly refer to "take-home", rather than pre-tax. The all in cost for a person includes pre-tax wages, often taxes on top of that, desks, computers, managers, electricity, office space, benefits and so on. Common sense suggests they are likely making 30% or so margins. If it were much more than that a competitor would eat their lunch. Look at the publicly listed services companies like DXC, Wipro, Accenture - margins are 20-30%.