In a great irony, many of those so-called scams were in fact workers using ChatGPT to generate their answers and speed up their productivity. For white-collar workers in the Global North, such an act, within Silicon Valley’s narrative, would be laudatory and, with enough widespread adoption, do wonders for the economy; in the hands of RLHF workers in the Global South, whose very labor props up that narrative, it was a punishable offense.
