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    AI-washing

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    1 minute ago, emmaki said:

    (also, looking at the Indonesian story, it looks like it's "bad-but-manageable" for now, but will be really bad if the mountain collapses into the sea?)

    I'm more worried about pyroclastic clouds if this keeps up. According to a geologist friend of mine, there have been some harmonic tremors after the initial eruption. That’s apparently bad news, but don’t ask me why because I have no idea. Apparently, lots of people are on the shore of the neighboring island taking pictures, and if a powerful pyroclastic flow comes along, they’ll be slammed with both a tsunami and burning ash. I'm only nerding this because we had an eruption on La Palma in 2021, and it was raining ash when my son was born. 

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    AI-washing

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    Yeah, 

    1 minute ago, emmaki said:

    Less work, more money, and more importantly, less people like this buyer. 

     

    Totally agree. And I actually became a better writer when I did the same, because now I have more time to focus on each project.

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    AI-washing

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    Just now, emmaki said:

    I can't find the review. Is that "we hide your worst review for X time" thing still in place? Anyway, D, put your prices up. $10 is just asking for these clients. It's not going to hurt you *at all* to put them up. Less work, more money, and more importantly, less people like this buyer. 

     

    I found it by filtering for most recent. But it doesn't show up with the default "Relevant" filter. So most buyers won't see it. 

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    AI-washing

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    3 minutes ago, donnovan86 said:

     

    Overall, feeling very disappointed now, and not in my work, because I know that for what we agreed upon after I shared my ideas, I delivered and even more so... 

    Sorry to hear that! That's why I only work with buyers who know exactly what they want and can clearly explain it before I make my offer. With your 18k five-star reviews, I wouldn't sweat it too much though. You'll bounce back. If I were you, I'd increase my rates tenfold though. That usually weeds out those buyers pretty fast. It's better to write one article for a good client and make $100 than to crank out ten articles for bad clients at the same rate.

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    AI-washing

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    Just now, emmaki said:

    Nope, this is vanilla GPT 4. There's the old "picture this:" among other things. 

    I really enjoyed the desperation in the benefit of socks being a conversation starter though.

    I just looked at the formatting. Bing likes to inject # for some reason. 

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    AI-washing

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    3 minutes ago, emmaki said:

    "Dear ChatGPT, please write me an article about these size 10 100% cotton red and white sports socks athletic sport football basketball running weightlifting fitness exercise women children men. The keyword is "nice white socks. you must also write it in a serious but funny tone to engage the audience, which is anyone between 12 and 99 anywhere in the world. also, please make sure to write at grade 5."

     

    That looks more like Bing. 

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    AI-washing

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    2 minutes ago, emmaki said:

    That's 99% of all webinars to be fair. A solid hour of pitching "information" to newbies before the final sales pitch for some $999.99 product and a cherrypicked Q&A at the end. Fiverr's only deviation from the formula is to lock the "best" ones behind SP. 

    It's a bit odd, really. 

    Here it is. 

    Why did you have to share it?! Now I have to watch it 🙃

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    AI-washing

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    1 minute ago, donnovan86 said:

    Yep. I was looking forward to realistic, proper ways of integrating AI and helping you speed up time. But that was not what I saw. It was an hour of my life wasted on stuff that I will not be using. And I don't think it helped anyone. If anything, the upcoming AI webinar might be the same. I hope these webinars improve and I am still working on a list of suggestions to share with Yoav, I am just very very busy this week. But yeah, if we work together on a list of webinar ideas that we actually want to attend and see.. maybe that will go to the higher ups. I don't see why not.

    I think your motives are admirable, but after spending years working with Fiverr trying to improve things, here we are. I've lost faith. 

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    Delivery date extension

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    I won't say I know this for sure, but probably not. If it does, it's very delayed, because I had to extend a few orders last month and it didn't affect me. But it might later on.

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    AI-washing

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    Posted · Edited by smashradio

    1 minute ago, emmaki said:

     

    That person doing the AI writing webinar was using rubbish prompts as well. "we're going to ask CGPT to write an article about dogs, and then it's going to outline an outline. Now what I like to do is take each section and get it to write them individually then clean it up a bit, you don't want it to look like you used AI lol". 

    My emotions: 😴🥱😵😳🤨🤦‍♂️

     

     

    Did they really allow that as a webinar? 

    And yes, Yoav is great. And he's human. Not very common to see these days. But I get that staff has been told to fall in line. I don't blame any of them for trying to keep their jobs. But the irony is that they probably won't. 

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    AI-washing

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    37 minutes ago, emmaki said:

    I see you haven't seen my favorite post today (after Levi's). 

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    I want to give a shoutout to Yoav. I’ve collaborated with him on a few projects, and he genuinely seems to be one of the good ones who actually cares about freelancers. That’s probably why your post didn’t read like the usual Fiverr fluff. 

    But since Fiverr is now telling its sellers to get in line, I'm sure they have done the same with their staff. 

    I’m bracing myself for a "pep talk" of my own after my recent fireworks on Levi’s post.

    And honestly, I think the current output from Fiverr is all the explanation I need. 

    Like I said before, "For a platform that's supposed to champion freelancers, you sure seem busy making them obsolete".

    I wonder if I'm "tech savvy" enough to join that webinar.... I do want to give Fiverr a proper opportunity to explain themselves. Perhaps if the title was changed to "We're sorry". 

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    AI-washing

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    5 minutes ago, emmaki said:

    That wasn't a very tech savvy thing for you to post. Why are you so negative without giving us a chance to explain ourselves? 

    - Fiverr staff

    That's now how Fiverr staff talks. I see I have to go into corporate blabber mode 2000 again....

    "Your opinion and that of sellers like you is of tremendous importance to us, and your insights play a crucial role in shaping the empowerment of our ongoing effort for transparency in our digital interactions. As you are undoubtedly aware, our forward-thinking artificial intelligence initiatives are strategically designed to enhance the capabilities of individuals previously underutilized within our ecosystem. This approach is not only innovative but also integral to our visionary projection of future industry standards. Your perspective, while appreciated, diverges from our established strategic trajectory."

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    When your job makes you a quasi-expert on "everything"

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    17 hours ago, texvox said:

    Also a voice actor here, and I know way more than I ever thought I would about both male performance issues and heavy machinery. 

    Ah yes, the male performance ones. I've had my fair share of those viagra scripts. I was the go-to voice for a major clinic that did ED treatment in Norway. A few years back, they replaced me with AI (Norwegian TTS voices sounds like a llama being strangled) but they quickly realized their mistake and asked me to come back. By then, I had doubled my rates, and they were stuck with amateurs or TTS. 🙃 I'm also the voice for SoRoTo in Norway, so I know my buckets, cement mixers, and heavy-duty conveyor belts.

    12 hours ago, emmaki said:

    With your expert knowledge, do you think you could somehow combine these subjects to create a thrilling terrifying new treatment for this delicate male health issue?

    That's just pure evil. I like it. 

    1 hour ago, imagination7413 said:

    I'm not sure this counts, because it's more 'outdated' than 'pointless', but I use to work in a film-processing lab. 35mm hasn't quite gone extinct, but all my knowledge of that industry is pretty much pointless know except in historical and trivia context. I suppose it isn't completely useless, should someone bring me beta work set in the time-period before digital cameras, but the odds of that are rather slim. 

    I'm a bit of a film nerd myself. I know my way around a projector room in a pinch. 

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    AI-washing

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    Someone sent me this: 

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    "The overuse of the term and it being thrown around so casually, is a symptom of something called AI-washing. It's when companies create a fake buzz and mislead investors by providing manipulative information about the capabilities, limitations or risks of their AI products". 

    – Coldfusion TV/Youtube

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    Gig image looks stretched in search view

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    Posted · Edited by smashradio

    10 hours ago, radio_mark said:

    Do those dimensions look okay in the main gig page and also on mobile?  I have also reached out to CS for help.  Really appreciate your response.  This has been so frustrating to me!  I don't want to launch a page with a bad image and then have to change it, because I assume (from what I have read) is that I will lose points with algorithms if I tinker with my gig too much.   

    Yeah, they work for me but nothing's perfect. I try to keep elements within an invisible border so they show up on all devices, but you never know when Fiverr might change the aspect ratio in one place but not in others.

    No, you won’t “lose points” with the algorithm for editing your gig. If the edit improves your gig, you might even gain some points.

    Changing images/videos might take your gig out of rotation for a bit (minutes to hours at worst in my experience) but I’ve never had that happen to me, and I edit my gigs often.

    Most of those myths—like always stay online, don’t edit your gig, delete the gig and start over—come from people who haven’t had much success on Fiverr because they underperform, so they make up excuses and reasons why their terrible gigs, offering the same thing as 40,000 other sellers, aren’t at the top of page one.

    The keys to success on Fiverr, in my experience after a decade on the platform, many of those years as a Fiverr Pro and Top Rated seller, are:

    • Be skilled at what you do
    • Don’t claim to be skilled at something you’re not
    • Remember that you're acting as both support and a pro for hire
    • Always deliver on time
    • Under-promise and over-deliver
    • Make sure you know and understand what the buyer needs before beginning the work. Ask questions. 
    • Be detailed and specific in your gig description, FAQs and custom offers, so the buyers know what they're getting. 
    • Avoid negative surprises when you can
    • Make the process simple for your buyers
    • Keep buyers informed about progress and respond quickly to any concerns or questions
    • Deliver top-quality work
    • Under-promise and over-deliver
    • Gradually increase your rates as you rise the ranks (but never start at the bottom, so don't charge 5 bucks)
    • Don't offer unlimited revisions. 
    • Read and understand the terms and community guidelines before you do anything. Re-read them often. 

    That’s really the core of it in my experience. There's more to it than that, of course, like having something to offer that people actually wanna buy, but if you follow that list you should be on the right path. 

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    Fiverr's fetish with AI now makes sense.

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    Posted · Edited by smashradio

    4 hours ago, catwriter said:

    It wouldn't be such a problem if they were mediocre. 

    I have to disagree, because it’s the average Joes (and by average, I mean Fiverr-average, not world-average.) who are just skilled enough to copy and paste something that resembles a professional introduction (at first glance), bragging about their expert skills. What happens when people buy from them and end up with junk? They become one of the 200,000 customers who've already ditched Fiverr.

    13 hours ago, newsmike said:

    It's good for biz, one dollar at a time.

    You cracked it. 

     

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