“These are costs that most Global South users may not be in a position to absorb,” said Jane Munga of the Carnegie Endowment.
OpenAI’s agent costs $100 a month on a continent where 36 percent of people have internet at all. Agents generate up to 450 percent more traffic per task than a human. The pitch is global reach. The product is a bandwidth tax on people who cannot pay it, in languages it does not speak.