ChatGPT's 2022 launch collapsed Nairobi's academic ghostwriting industry, which employed at least 40,000 people at its peak, the New York Times reports. Writer Teresios Bundi, who produced over 2,500 papers in twelve years, saw orders and prices fall sharply. Related gig work also declined, including transcription, data annotation, and content moderation for Meta, once promoted by Kenya's government with firms like Samasource. Oxford professor Mark Graham expects similar disruption globally.
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