Posted on 04/27/2023 10:12:52 PM PDT by thecodont
For the past nine years, Collins, a 27-year-old freelance writer, has been making money by writing assignments for students in the U.S. — over 8,500 miles away from Nanyuki in central Kenya, where he lives. He is part of the “contract cheating” industry, known locally as simply “academic writing.” Collins writes college essays on topics including psychology, sociology, and economics. Occasionally, he is even granted direct access to college portals, allowing him to submit tests and assignments, participate in group discussions, and talk to professors using students’ identities. In 2022, he made between $900 and $1,200 a month from this work.
Lately, however, his earnings have dropped to $500–$800 a month. Collins links this to the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools.
“Last year at a time like this, I was getting, on average, 50 to 70 assignments, including discussions which are shorter, around 150 words each, and don’t require much research,” Collins told Rest of World. “Right now, on average, I get around 30 to 40-something assignments.” He requested to be identified only by his first name to avoid jeopardizing his accounts on platforms where he finds clients.
In January 2023, online learning platform Study surveyed more than 1,000 American students and over 100 educators. More than 89% of the students said they had used ChatGPT for help with a homework assignment. Nearly half admitted to using ChatGPT for an at-home test or quiz, 53% had used it to write an essay, and 22% had used it for outlining one.
Collins now fears that the rise of AI could significantly reduce students’ reliance on freelancers like him in the long term, affecting their income. Meanwhile, he depends on ChatGPT to generate the content he used to outsource to other freelance writers.
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So he’s actually getting an education, while the kids are walking out with no education, just a paper.
He just prefers to live in his native country in the boonies.
I am not smart enough to use the AI chat programs. I tried but the results was not good. I tried a few free examples.
What I asked it to do: Write a story about airplanes
It’s ok. They’ll run for congress because they’ll fail any actual job interview
“Lately, however, his earnings have dropped to $500–$800 a month”
He is making a lot more than George Obama. I bet he doesn’t live in a hut.
Lately, however, his earnings have dropped to $500–$800 a month. Collins links this to the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools.
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Collins is making excuses for a cut in income, a cut in income that was inevitable with or without the AI boogie man scapegoat.
He was a nonessential producer during a cheap money era.
When cheap money ends, it becomes a tough shit, better find new employment or become a new employer economy.
This “creative destruction” never changes no matter the time period in history.
Cry me a river.
Those students who cheat are only cheating themselves on many levels. But that certainly explains the number of illiterate college educated idiots out there where you wonder how they got their degrees.
Try to imagine how little I care.
I wrote many essays.
I did research and wrote them and received
corresponding grades and corrective comments.
I went to to school to get educated,
not cheat my way into the system.
But then again I’m a scientist, not a Democrat.
Cheating themselves, yes but also cheating all of us.
Starting by committing fraud while in college and getting student loans to not having the knowledge to be able to get jobs good enough to repay those loans. Then finally landing jobs in government where their ignorance shines through and affects us all.
Its dishonest and corrupt and it is condoned.
Just keep reloading the page until you find a paper that you like.
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