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What do you mean by "fake buyers"? People making accounts never intending to buy anything, but just straight up scamming people (asking for telegram, sending viruses, etc.)? Yes, there are quite a few. But those are usually easy to spot, therefore not a problem. If by "fake buyers" you mean people who actually place orders, but are dishonest, manipulative, try to cancel afterwards, promise tips / future work / reviews and don't come through, demand revision after revision for free even if you do not offer them, etc.? Those are a ton, at least as many as the "fake sellers", specially towards the lower end of pricing.

If you're an SEO expert, why are you looking to "jumpstart your career"? An expert is someone who already has a career. That's why they're an expert. You can't be an expert with no experience. Then you're a beginner.

I hate google drive with a passion, it's not easy nor reliable. A good way to show your work is either using the Fiverr integrated portfolio, or having a website that is designed to show it. A drive with a bunch of folders and files is not professional.

If you're a certified SEO expert, what are you doing in a freelance platform instead of setting up your own website and getting a ton of direct traffic? Do these "see experts" constantly asking on the forums how to get visibility not realize that is equivalent to me, a video editor, asking how to make an effective gig video? Ridiculous.

Why? Is your hand tired of pressing f5/command+r?

Yeah, that happened to me before as well, a buyer asking my religion and then not wanting to work with me. As if that mattered to the work being done.

I find it weird you're having trouble with that. I believe everyone is free to work or refuse to work with whomever they wish, but I also believe it's very stupid to turn down good business for identity reasons, so most of the sellers should want to deal with you. In other words, you don't need a "xxx friendly" seller, xxx being any cause / group / etc., to get what you need - you just need an "xxx neutral", and those should be the vast majority. Business is business, the subject doesn't really matter. Now, if you specifically want an LGBT seller for an LGBT project, that's a different story. You're free to prefer that, of course, but then you're putting yourself in the box. I've worked in all kinds of projects with religious, political, commercial views that are not aligned with mine. But, as a seller, mine are irrelevant.

Please, been asking for this for a long time.

If you're looking for a "regular job", freelancing is not for you.

It's not. As long as the first delivery is on time, it's not late.

Perfect isn't enough anymore.

No commotion for me, I just don't think that's the point - I've always called the chat gpt copy-pasters, no need for detectors. My point is that legitimising those detectors, that are anything but trustworthy, can be dangerous. If you feed them the posts of users I'm fairly certain are not using AI, including mine and yours, they'll return false positives half the time. So it's counter productive to call on them as proof of anything, as it can backfire. And there's no need to anyway, we all can see when some user on the forum is using chat gpt. Now, using them as a joke is fine, of course, but not everyone gets the joke, and I can just see the day when someone will accuse me of being a bot, with "proof", and I don't like it. Or, god forbid, the platform itself decides to introduce some form of AI detection (which is an AI itself, and they do love to use AI to automate decisions, with very questionable results) and start flagging gigs, sellers, etc. for "AI generated content". That's very dangerous. For now, I think that the only way I trust to decide on if something/someone is human, is having a (qualified) human analyse / interact with it. Leaving that to a machine doesn't sit well with me.

At a certain point, it's impossible to say if a text is human or AI. Where's that point? 1 - A sufficiently advanced AI will be able to mimic a human perfectly. That means being indistinguishable from one, therefore undetectable. We're not quite there yet, but will be soon. 2 - A sufficiently advanced user will be able to tweak an imperfect AI output in a way that it will be undetectable, by injecting "humanity" into the output. We're perfectly past this point now. Obvious AI content, used by clueless users, will be obvious until we get to 1). We don't need detectors for that, it's obvious. Once we get to 1), or while we're dealing with 2), no detector will be useful.

People. I'm one of the users always calling out meksells using chatgpt. Just check the forum, and you'll see several examples. I'm obviously against it. And I'm also against using "AI detectors", because they are crap. They don't work. They can't work, by design. You don't need "AI detectors" to call out meksells using AI to write - it's obvious to a human anyway. I've called out multiple users for chat gpt answers, and I never used a detector. It's not needed. And you can't use "AI detectors" to catch sophisticated users who actually know how to use AI without getting caught. They won't work, at a certain point it's impossible to tell "real AI text with some work done on it" from a false positive. So it's a moot point.

Exactly. It's just pattern matching, and all speech is pattern based. Detectors may work if you're going over a 300 page book, some coincidences are too coincidental. But for a couple paragraphs, it's next to impossible to conclusively claim if it's written by an AI or not (provided the AI is actually on a human level, of course). And it will keep getting harder.

That's definitely chat gpt, you can tell by the structure, but people have to stop using those detectors. They don't work well enough, tons of false positives. Of course they claim x% accuracy, that's in their interest, but I suspect those numbers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/01/chatgpt-cheating-detection-turnitin/ Also, current chat gpt content is obvious, you don't need a detector. And if (when) it's good enough, or worked on enough, no detector will help. At a certain level, it's literally impossible to tell Ai from a human, that's the point. The good news is that for the level of the people using it here, no detector is needed. Half of them don't even remove the formatting, they are nowhere near sophisticated enough to obfuscate the origin.

And the sellers will say "no", because then they aren't guaranteed any payment. Being afraid of that is Fiverr saying "our freelancers are idiots, and can't be trusted". That's the issue. Now, the good, serious sellers, have to pay for the idiots.

You create an account, under one name. You can have multiple people accessing it, but there will only be one account. I'd advise one person (the owner) to manage everything on Fiverr in terms of communications, payments, order flow, etc., and then delegate the work to your team.

If you did what was requested, and the client canceled because they changed their mind, just screenshot everything, send to CS, and they should be able to fix your metrics.

I'd just let it go, Fiverr obviously can't help you get your money back. You can report the seller for accepting payment outside Fiverr (for you to be able to pay him via PayPal, he had to give you their address, which was a major mistake on his part), and he'll get banned for sure. As for your account... You're not a seller, you're a buyer. If you are banned, it's not like you're losing any money or business over it. Obviously buyers also have to respect the TOS, but someone who runs a business here is under much tighter scrutiny than someone who is putting money into the system, for obvious reasons. A seller is expected to have much more experience, and to actually read the full TOS, since they're here for the long run, making money, etc. Buyers ideally would do the same, but we all know how these things go. It can still happen though (being banned as a buyer), so if you want to report the seller I'd just wait until you close the orders you have open before doing so, just in case.

That's now Fiverr Pro, it looks like. The website is interesting for sure. https://pro.fiverr.com

So, it's not like "briefs". Briefs, as currently understood, are posts that get sent to multiple people, with no choice on the buyers part. That description is more like a request to order. It's a direct message to the seller, with an order request.

I don't think so. Briefs are briefs, and will remain as they are. NEO is an AI tool to help you pick a freelancer, instead of doing the search yourself.

That is a solution that is applicable to voice overs, yes, but it's not applicable to many other verticals. So they could implement that for voice over briefs... but not for video briefs, for example. They would need to have different brief formats according to each vertical, which would make the brief system much more complicated to set up for them.

Ah, ok, so it's what I was saying - the brief budget does, in fact, match your cut off. The issue is what they are asking for that budget. That's easier to fix when you can define prices easily per word, or per minute, etc. In my field, it's impossible. I need project details, and a budget. That it's one minute or 10, 1 video or 10, by itself, doesn't mean anything. It's impossible to fix that.