AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
I can’t believe all the comments arguing that this is good for the Kenyans.<p>Yes, obviously this industry shouldn’t exist. But it does. Lots of industries exist purely to fix inefficiencies in others.<p>If there was other global knowledge work available to Kenyans I’m sure they’d take it. These people are writing college level essays! They are probably better writers than most of us.<p>When futurists talk about industrial revolutions they all agree that in the long term it works out but in the short term it causes lots of pain and suffering for those whose work is displaced.<p>If you’re an AI futurist you should be intellectually honest and admit that chatGPT is probably not going to be good for Kenya. Trying to dress it up as if there’s absolutely no downside to this is just lying to yourself.