Kenya's Essay-Writing Industry Collapses Under AI, AI Creeps Into Op-Ed Pages, LA Schools Ban Student AI Access, and a $1 Trillion Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call
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Kenya's Essay Mills Collapse: Thousands of Kenyans once earned a living writing essays for cheating overseas students—one writer completed over 2,500 essays across 12 years—but the industry has nearly vanished since ChatGPT's 2022 arrival. Kenyan transcription, content moderation, and data-labeling work has also dried up as AI improved; one AI benchmark found models went from completing 2.5% to 16% of freelance tasks in under a year.
AI Is Creeping Into Op-Eds: A Semafor/Pangram analysis found 10 of 310 recent guest columns in the WSJ, NYT, and Washington Post were over 80%…
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