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Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI


Gig marketplace Fiverr wants to let freelancers train AI on their bodies of work and use it to automate future jobs.

Perhaps the most ambitious is a program that’ll give freelancers doing voiceover, graphic design, and certain related work the ability to train AI on their content and to charge customers for access. Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman pitched the move as a way to ensure gig workers “receive proper credit and compensation while giving them unprecedented tools to scale their work.” A recent report found that AI tools like image generators and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have led to more competition for fewer roles, with writers, programmers, and app developers suffering the brunt of the negative effects.

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