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newsmike

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  1. I got that email this morning, too. I hope this is more effective than "briefs." Has anyone been able to view what these new profiles look like?
  2. I've actually seen that video. But a bunch of French artists in 1899, making some wildly incorrect and some close to reality guesses as to what mankind would invent in 100 years is far from saying , "Let's turn our food supply over to a machine." None of that was in any way discussing a technology that would run your life, and BTW, notice they did not ask professors, they asked artists.
  3. Not necessarily true. It will never actually be intelligence, it will be an amazingly fast imitation of how it is programmed to mimic intelligence. Without compassion, without ever holding an infant, or loving anyone. It is a tool, and stupid as hell to make it our overlord. It should be kept as a very controlled servant. It will never actually be sentient, it will perfectly imitate sentience. It will never have a heartbeat, it will play an MP3 of a heartbeat. It will never care about anyone, only justify every decision as in your best interest. Kind of like politicians do now.
  4. But with limits. We don't let Instagram, Facebook and Twitter have nukes. Imagine Fiverr. BREAKING: NEO gets accidentally pissed, nukes ASIA. @kesha to post apology soon.
  5. Or we could stop the humans that are experimenting with our destruction. Funny how no one who wants to stop nuclear arms cares one whit about this. That's because they sell it as "it will do everything for you." That is AI 1.0, AI 2.0 is "why are we doing stuff for humans?" and AI 3.0 is, nightmare stuff.
  6. So you are suggesting the point that AI asks, "why do we need humans at all"?
  7. Sounds like it is time for freelancers to call Vinnie in Jersey and start talks about unions in many different sectors. There is a union for supermarket checkers, so maybe this is the only way to prevent AI rapidly replacing everyone. That sure is a nice website you got there, be a shame if something happened to it.
  8. Wondering, if AI on Fiverr is going to kill translation, why then didn't Google Translate kill it over the last 5 years, especially when it is free?
  9. Like @williambryan392, I too am replying once and placing you on ignore.
  10. Interesting. That seems a good move, but it is not consistent. Depends where you look:
  11. Especially when they knew that there was so much anger and distrust surrounding their ability to pull off this March 14th reinvention. All eyes were on them, they knew it, and still phoned it in. If this tells us anything, it is that the incompetence is systemic.
  12. I would advise against that. If you say "no more revisions." then he can make the case that you would not complete his job to satisfaction. The point is not to refuse to do revisions, the point it to do as many as he wants, charging him for each one. That way you are allowing him to complete his project, but retaining your integrity to be paid as you should be.
  13. Leo, none of these screenshots can be accurate, because Fiverr promised that everything would be fixed by March 14th.
  14. That's what I said, fear of saying no is a problem for a business person to have. What if you ran a restaurant, this guy orders an huge meal then says $200 in cocktails that he drank should be free. Would you say OK? You would be out of business quickly. You are worried about appearing rude to someone who is trying to steal from you. He can have his revisions, but why would you feel that he can bully you into doing them for free? He's trying to steal from you, and he knows you are afraid of a bad review, so he is making you go through all this anxiety. You have to either learn to say no, or get used to being bullied into doing free work. Personally, I'd take the bad review (and have) rather than let someone treat me like that.
  15. No, it's not unfair. You have the answer, but you have to not be afraid to tell someone a simple "no."
  16. In a convoluted way maybe so, but they are not giving the buyer a fair shot by masking the fact that 2 sellers side by side may have completed 1001, and 22,000 orders respectively. Whenever you try to engineer "fairness," you absolutely must suppress some bit of truth. Let the stats be the stats. Like Amazon, who clearly knows better. To me, this is hugely significant: Imagine if those both said 1K+ in an effort to demonstrate that they are both equally popular? That's manipulative and misleading. Clearly Amazon recognizes the importance of displaying the more popular and more frequently purchased product, because it demonstrates trust and quality. And we can all agree that Amazon knows a zillion times more about online selling than Fiverr ever will. If your theory is correct, that is concerning, as Fiverr should not be trying to pick winners and losers. They should provide an equal opportunity, and stay the hell out of the way. But I'm not convinced that they put that much thought in. I am favoring the lazy coding theory.
  17. And you can still charge for them.
  18. Relax, you are in a good place. Because you did not select any revisions in the screenshot, that means that there are no revisions included in your gig. Therefore you are expected to charge for any additional revisions after initial delivery, unless you made an error and left out part which was to be included. All you need to do is reply something like, "Sure, that revision will cost..." And quote him a price. Occasionally someone will balk, but that's when you have to point out that your gig does not include revisions. Often people make the mistake of thinking that because buyers can request revisions, that you must do them for free. This is absolutely not the case, and I believe a symptom of sellers who are afraid to tell anyone no, for fear of a bad review. You are only obligated to do the number included in the gig for free. Then charge for each one thereafter.
  19. Yes, capping at 1K+ is either poor marketing or lazy coding. Excellent observation and clearly relevant in the comparison.
  20. It is one thing to create a law, because that creates strong optics. It is quite another to actually enforce it, like immigration laws for example. Most likely politics and business as usual will mean selective enforcement based on ideologies and financial donations. Brussels is every bit "for sale" as Washington.
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