“Students Who Used to Ghostwrite Assignments Now Use AI”... Outsourcing Jobs Encroached upon by the Emergence of ChatGPT
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As generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT advance, global digital outsourcing, including Kenya's ghostwriting industry, is shrinking. Low-wage labor markets have been hit hard, with IT employment forecasts in the Philippines being revised downward, and new outsourcing models involving the modification of AI outputs instead of simple tasks are becoming widespread.
In Kenya, ChatGPT has destroyed an entire business model: writing study papers for foreign students. The article How AI wiped out an entire industry in Nairobi first appeared on The Decoder.
In Kenya, the article writing industry, which at one point was estimated to employ up to 40,000 people, rapidly shrank after ChatGPT was launched in 2022. It has virtually disappeared as a source of income for young people.
ChatGPT Wiped Out a Nation's Citizens' Income Overnight: 40,000 Young People Lost Their Livelihoods!
With the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the incomes of 40,000 young people in Kenya have been severely impacted over the years.
Thousands of academic paper writers in Kenya, who for years provided assignments to students in the US and UK, quickly lost their livelihoods due to ChatGPT | The case illustrates how even seemingly stable digital jobs can quickly disappear in the age of artificial intelligence
In Kenya, ghostwriters who wrote papers on behalf of students attending universities in Europe and the US were a common practice, but it has been reported that this practice has been decimated since the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022. Read more...
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