How AI Wiped Out an Entire Industry in Nairobi
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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.
Artificial intelligence has destroyed a job that provided a lifeline for thousands of people in a poor African country and triggered another crisis. The side hustle that supported thousands of Kenyans has now ceased to make sense. Thousands... Full version of the website: https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/pisane_tysiace_student_chatgpt_biznes_afryka-53823.html
The launch of ChatGPT hit a full-blown industry that for years connected thousands of Kenyan workers with foreign students. The drop in orders and fees in Nairobi exposes how automation can quickly undo entire work models, while new workers try to survive by rewriting AI-generated texts.
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The DecoderIn 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.
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