Demand For AI Skills On the Rise As Fiverr Searches Spike For Freelancers (venturebeat.com) 18
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: With all the hype and excitement surrounding generative AI technologies, there has been a corresponding growth in the interest that businesses have in using artificial intelligence (AI). While there is lots of interest in figuring out how to use AI to help a business, finding the right people to help an organization use AI effectively isn't necessarily an easy task. It's an area that has led to a surge of interest on freelance marketplace Fiverr, with a 1,400% increase in searches for AI-related services over the last six months. Organizations are looking for individuals that are able to help them take advantage of all manner of AI technologies, including generative AI capabilities for image and text generation that can help to improve marketing, sales and business operations. Fiverr has a history of helping organizations fill talent needs, growing strongly during the pandemic as demand for freelance remote skills accelerated.
Fiverr is now turning its attention to AI, today introducing a series of new categories to its freelance marketplace to help businesses find the talent they need to benefit from the power that AI can bring. "We've seen a trend of increasing searches for AI-related services," Yoav Hornung, head of verticals and innovation at Fiverr, told VentureBeat. "We've also started seeing more freelancers creating offerings that are related to the world of generative AI, for the most recent tools like ChatGPT, GPT-3, Midjourney, Dall-E and Stable Diffusion." Hornung explained that Fiverr creates new categories on its service as a way to help both organizations and freelancers connect. It's an approach that isn't just about providing a specific category, but also about providing the right structure to help a company make a request to bring in the right skills to achieve a business outcome.
For generative AI, there has been growing demand for AI artists that are skilled in the use of the various tools that exist. Hornung said that Fiverr has also seen a surge in companies trying to use or create products that use generative AI engines. To that end, he said companies have been looking for skilled freelancers that can help them build AI-powered applications as well. [...] The explosion in the use of generative AI tools for text generation has also led to a new demand for freelancers to help organizations with proofreading as well as fact checking. "Up until now, proofreading an article was one thing and today, proofreading or editing an article that was generated by AI is different," Hornung said.
Fiverr is now turning its attention to AI, today introducing a series of new categories to its freelance marketplace to help businesses find the talent they need to benefit from the power that AI can bring. "We've seen a trend of increasing searches for AI-related services," Yoav Hornung, head of verticals and innovation at Fiverr, told VentureBeat. "We've also started seeing more freelancers creating offerings that are related to the world of generative AI, for the most recent tools like ChatGPT, GPT-3, Midjourney, Dall-E and Stable Diffusion." Hornung explained that Fiverr creates new categories on its service as a way to help both organizations and freelancers connect. It's an approach that isn't just about providing a specific category, but also about providing the right structure to help a company make a request to bring in the right skills to achieve a business outcome.
For generative AI, there has been growing demand for AI artists that are skilled in the use of the various tools that exist. Hornung said that Fiverr has also seen a surge in companies trying to use or create products that use generative AI engines. To that end, he said companies have been looking for skilled freelancers that can help them build AI-powered applications as well. [...] The explosion in the use of generative AI tools for text generation has also led to a new demand for freelancers to help organizations with proofreading as well as fact checking. "Up until now, proofreading an article was one thing and today, proofreading or editing an article that was generated by AI is different," Hornung said.
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It sounds to me like AI is going to be used to stiff freelancers
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It doesn't look that way at all to me. It's pretty clear from the summary that AI isn't replacing anyone, it's just becoming an unnecessary part of someone unfortunate human's job.
It's going to look a lot like outsourcing...
1) Try to save money by using an AI toy in place of competent human
2) Realize that AI isn't capable of doing the job
3) Hire a competent human to fix the mess that the AI makes
Looks like we're already at step 3. I expect the next AI bust to be spectacular.
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One of my superpowers is correcting other peoples' work.
My ADHD makes it really hard for me to focus sometimes enough to generate the content myself, but I'm prolific in review and edit, often rewriting large sections.
I've been using it as a neural hack to help me do the work myself. It's been incredibly helpful.
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People are already using "AI" art for lots of commercial purposes, including advertising. And it dramatically increases productivity, so it absolutely is already decreasing jobs. The fact that it doesn't do everything super well is irrelevant to the question of whether it can reduce jobs if it saves a lot of time, which it is already good enough to do.
AI isn't going to replace very many jobs with pure AI any time soon. What it is already doing is replacing multiple people with a smaller number of people who
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It sounds to me like AI is going to be used to stiff freelancers
After these AIs get some AI skills ... it'll be checkmate.
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I think the people who really need to be worried are those in marketing and advertising, and in areas of entertainment that are nothing but marketing and advertising -- think of those crappy Saturday morning kids' cartoons that are nothing but ads for toys. I wouldn't be surprised if AI had already decimated employment in that industry. Also political speechwriters -- basically, anyone who's currently employed doing nothing but spouting BS will need to start thinking about a new career, like maybe yesterd
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One has to understand the domain fairly well to write decent code. Most specifications are vague and incomplete because making them thorough an unambiguous takes at least as much time and effort as coding an app itself. Thus, giving a thorough spec to a relatively dumb/literal bot won't be a net time saver. If bots get smart enough to do general domain analysis, then they'll take over the vast majority of jobs anyhow.
AI can't even write English (Score:2)
AI Skilled Freelancers (Score:2)
"We need to hire an AI expert to tell us (Score:1)
where and how to use AI because we keep hearing about it and want to join the hypewagon."
Fiverr providing competition for Americans (Score:2)
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That's just advertising bluff. Expect more like 20 - 30 from anyone who can actually code
Fiver searches... (Score:2)
...for a new warren.