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title: "AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters"
date: 2023-05-19
description: "Apparently, the popularity of using ChatGPT to write high school essays has impacted the contract cheating market, which had a lot of ghostwriters in Kenya. See AI is taking..."
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# AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters
My first reaction was, hooray, fewer essay cheating services! But as I thought more, I realized that reducing the reliance on human ghostwriters, and instead using AI tools like ChatGPT or Bard, means cheating is easier (now that it’s free) and more rampant.

English teachers will need to rethink their essay writing assignments or look for techno-solutions to identify AI-written content. Additionally, the Kenyan ghostwriters out of work might evolve their work to offer services to disguise AI-written content from identification.