Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year

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In 2022, Kenya launched a decade-long plan to shift graduates into online gig work, coinciding with OpenAI's release of ChatGPT. Nairobi saw a peak of 40,000 people paid to write essays for overseas students, but this industry has nearly vanished. The government aimed to leverage online outsourcing to address youth unemployment and poverty, though the essay-writing sector was unofficial and has since declined.

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