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Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/technology/kenya-college-essays-ai.html
26•pseudolus•3d ago

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pseudolus•3d ago
https://archive.ph/JkdMp
mc32•36m ago
So the unethical helping of unethical students is being subverted by unethical language models… What a world!

I guess I should not be surprised by people being sympathetic to this “business model.”

SoftTalker•18m ago
There will always be unethical students who cheat. At least the Kenyans were making a living from it. Now that's gone, and the money goes into the pockets of some of the wealthiest people on the planet.
atleastoptimal•14m ago
Would it be more ethical to donate GPUs to Kenyans who can then host their own Kimi instances and then resell the tokens at a higher price?
mc32•10m ago
So if I were an unethical hacker who hires Ukrainians to develop an APT for me and they know what I’m using it for, they are in the clear ethically because they’re using it to feed their children and arm themselves against russkies?
SoftTalker•6m ago
Maybe not "in the clear" but somewhat more forgivable than Anthropic doing it.

It's the old parable of whether it's unethical to steal a loaf of bread to feed your children.

Animats•3m ago
Amazon gave up on Mechanical Turk recently, too.[1]

If everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, you're fucked.

[1] https://www.mturk.com/help

monster_truck•3m ago
Never went to college, but I made pretty good coin writing papers for friends who did.

It's always been my understanding that virtually everyone cheats (doctors/non-computer engineers aside)

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Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived

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