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More generally though, ChatGPT makes workers in Kenya vastly more useful. It can generate high-quality English content from a prompt written in Swahili, or brok
by ETH_start 4y ago
More generally though, ChatGPT makes workers in Kenya vastly more useful. It can generate high-quality English content from a prompt written in Swahili, or broken English, meaning a much greater number of people in Kenya can do work that's useful in the global economy.
It's a skills amplifier.
- ghiculescu 4y agoThese Kenyans are writing college level essays without chatgpt’s help. They clearly don’t have problems writing in English, and yet this is the work in the global economy they’ve chosen. I suspect if a better paying option existed they’d pick that. So your thesis that this is good for the Kenyans is easily disproven.
- ETH_start 4y agoFar more Kenyans were not qualified to do this work, and many amongst those, with ChatGPT, now are. The ones who were doing the essay-writing meanwhile can now take on more complex tasks with the aid of ChatGPT.
- rwmj 4y agoThat works for as long as it takes for the purchaser to realise that they can also type a prompt into ChatGPT.
- ETH_start 4y agoFor tasks below a certain level of complexity, like writing an essay, yes. But many projects are too complex to get done by a single prompt even if that prompt were perfect. Many take many iterations of prompts, combined with other tasks, to complete. It's those more complex projects - that many workers in Kenya previously did not have the skills to complete - and that individuals cannot trivially get ChatGPT to do for them, that many workers in Kenya can now do by utilizing ChatGPT.
- robjan 4y agoWhatever prompt the Kenyans in this scenario are receiving can just be entered directly into ChatGPT