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.
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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.
Trevor McKendrick@TrevMcKendrick"AI has destroyed Kenyan jobs because American college students no longer hire them to write fake college essays" is not a framing I expected even the NYT to have
Thomas Chatterton Williams@thomaschattwillAny way you want to look at this it’s insane: “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”
tyson brody@tysonbrodyI think you can connect the decline on overall literacy and the return of 'orality' to the fact so many people presume every news story is explicitly moralistic and not just 'here is an interesting thing happening in the world today that you may not know about'
Joe@JoePostinggAm I the only person on earth who got through college with a mix of "Doing my own work" and "Dealing with bad grades"
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasIt’s really problematic that so many people are determined to take a story that provided new interesting information about the world, treat it like an op-ed, attribute a dumb thesis to the op-ed, and then get angry about it.
Based on 39 sentiment-bearing replies from 37 accounts across 4 conversations.
Based on 39 sentiment-bearing replies from 37 accounts across 4 conversations.
Trevor McKendrick@TrevMcKendrick"AI has destroyed Kenyan jobs because American college students no longer hire them to write fake college essays" is not a framing I expected even the NYT to have
Moses Kagan@moseskagan@TrevMcKendrick I just can't believe colleges have been quietly graduating people doing this kind of industrial scale cheating for a decade+ Like, it confirms my decision a few years ago to devalue the credential in our hiring
Vic Vega@volatistics@TrevMcKendrick It’s an interesting story about the global supply chain of knowledge work and how it’s changing. Maybe it has anti-AI undertones but in principle it’s a newsworthy piece of reporting.
Linus Mixson@LinusMixson@TrevMcKendrick Much though I despise the New York Times, the framing here is just "interesting bizarre story," not "AI bad."
Ronan Murray@rjpmurray@TrevMcKendrick “global lifeline”… what, was their whole economy dependent on this?
Papakaya@0xPapakayaWe really are living in the twilight zone, these stories are just getting more and more ridiculous. It’s almost as if the whole world just thought they’d leech of the west forever and not that the game is ending they literally have no clue how to keep living. Guess the west was…