AI tools such as ChatGPT are reducing the earnings of Kenyans involved in the "contract cheating" industry, where freelancers help American students write essays and handle classwork. With the right prompt, ChatGPT can structure its answers to make them less likely to be detected as AI-generated text.
The rise of generative AI tools has made the work of educators harder. Higher education institutions in the U.S. have avoided outright bans on the use of ChatGPT, leaving it to teachers to decide how it will be used in their classes.