Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year
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Kenya’s national bet on online outsourcing colliding with ChatGPT-era automation is a live case study in how quickly AI can erode newly built labor markets. If your business leans on low-cost digital piecework, treat that dependency as duration-limited and start mapping which tasks will be first to compress.
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