Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year

Kenya’s 2022 ten-year National Digital Masterplan pushed graduates into online outsourcing, coinciding with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT. The scheme initially fueled a booming essay-writing market that employed thousands, but AI-driven automation rapidly eroded transcription, data entry and other gig jobs, shrinking the sector to near-zero.