AI Disrupts Kenya's Essay-Writing Gig Economy in Nairobi

Trevor McKendrick posted that the New York Times framed AI as destroying Kenyan jobs because American college students no longer hire them to write fake essays. Thomas Chatterton Williams shared a passage stating that at its peak early this decade at least 40,000 people in the city were being paid to do other people’s homework, researchers estimated. Other users noted that stories providing new information are often treated like op-eds with attributed theses instead of straightforward reports.