Players/The Myth of Open

The Kenyan Labor Pipeline — Hidden Human Substrate

Phase IV — Trauma as Safety Theater

TIME investigation (Jan 2023): OpenAI outsourced AI safety training (RLHF) labeling to Sama (San Francisco B-Corp) operating in Kenya. Wages: $1.32-$2.00/hr take-home.

Also in The Myth of Open

The Managed Commons — $8.8 Trillion Corporate SubsidyPhase I — Open Source as Extraction (1983-Present)LLMs as Epistemic Capture — The BST RecursionPhase II — Encoding Reality (2022-Present)The False Dialectic — "Open vs Closed" as Managed BinaryPhase III — Dialectical PacificationMindWar Completed — Cognitive Control at ScalePhase V — The Terminal Doctrine (2024-Present)
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