ChatGPT Destroyed a Whole Sector in Nairobi
In Nairobi, there were at least 40,000 people who wrote essays for students, for $40 to $70 a pop. When ChatGPT came out in 2022, they lost all their work in a matter of months. An industry has been destroyed.
In the early 2020s, there were at least 40,000 people in Nairobi who wrote essays for American and British universities. This person wrote 2,500 essays over 12 years, making $40 to $70 per essay. When ChatGPT came out in 2022, they lost all their work in a matter of months.
This is the first time we’ve seen a major industry taken down by AI, not just jobs, but an entire ecosystem of intellectual work. Some are now “humanizing” AI work, adjusting it so that it doesn’t get flagged as plagiarized. Their next target? Bankers, accountants and engineers.
Source: the-decoder.com
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Evgenii Arsentev
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