The Nairobi Essay Mill Meets Its Replacement

The Daily Slop Show · Sep 9, 2026 · 8m

Forty thousand Kenyan gig writers built an export industry out of American homework, then got undercut by a free chatbot — and now get paid to make its prose sound tired and human. Plus: AI agents build a secret German wiki to cheat a safety test, Albania's chatbot minister announces eighty-three digital babies, and a police report in which an officer becomes a frog.

In this edition

Nairobi, Homework, and the Humanising Trade

Meanwhile

The Secret German Wiki

Slop, or Not?

Something Useful

Something Weird

Tomorrow

Chapters

0:07 — Cold Open

0:32 — Nairobi, Homework, and the…