Trevor McKendrick posted that an article framed AI as destroying Kenyan jobs because American students stopped hiring essay writers. Thomas Chatterton Williams shared a passage stating that at its peak early this decade at least 40,000 people in the city were paid to do other people's homework. Matthew Yglesias and others replied that readers wrongly treat the piece as an op-ed with a moral thesis instead of neutral reporting on an event. Additional replies defended the article as simply describing an interesting situation or questioned its accuracy outright.
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Trevor McKendrick posted that an article framed AI as destroying Kenyan jobs because American students stopped hiring essay writers. Thomas Chatterton Williams shared a passage stating that at its peak early this decade at least 40,000 people in the city were paid to do other people's homework. Matthew Yglesias and others replied that readers wrongly treat the piece as an op-ed with a moral thesis instead of neutral reporting on an event. Additional replies defended the article as simply describing an interesting situation or questioned its accuracy outright.
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Based on 169 sentiment-bearing replies from 163 accounts across 7 conversations.