The NYT's Kenya Angle Reframes AI Job Loss Around Fake College Essays

A New York Times framing that AI destroyed Kenyan jobs by ending American students' demand for ghostwritten essays became a viral emblem of how strange the AI-labor story has gotten.

Sometimes the framing is the story. '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, wrote @TrevMcKendrick in a post that went viral. The line captures how peculiar the AI-labor conversation has become: an entire cross-border gig economy for academic dishonesty, quietly disrupted by a chatbot.

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