Maybe I missed it or maybe they are dodging the bigger question: is freelance work and the amount of money paid for it going up or down and by how much?
From what I read about the freelancers’ perspective, a lot of the newer gigs they get are to clean up work already done by AI instead of the opportunity to start new like they did in the past.
I pay an illustrator for every illustration on The Consensus, and paid a graphic designer for the logo after doing a first version myself. AI artwork, let alone AI writing, is just not great for your image.
You can find an illustrator anywhere in the world for the budget you'd like to spend (The Consensus is bootstrapped, a shoe-string budget). Would love to stop seeing tech companies using AI illustrations.
Unfortunately, it's not only big tech companies... but it's especially infuriating when it comes from a billion or trillion dollar company. As if they don't have the money to hire a professional illustrator.
For me there is almost nothing more grating than obvious AI illustrations. It makes it near impossible for me to take the content seriously. I'm wondering: do these people just have no taste? Or do they think nobody cares? Or they just don't care themselves?
It sounds like they're mainly saying that there are certain categories of work in which people use AI to handle things themselves (directly via ChatGPT) and other categories for which they still post a freelance listing (especially if it requires skills across multiple domains).
Writing, illustration, and tech support seem to be the categories people handle themselves most often via AI, according to the first graphic... But then the second graphic suggests that the number of freelance postings for a top 'do-it-yourself-with-AI' category like writing is only down about 0.5% year over year. That almost suggests there isn't really an effect. Even the largest-changing category in that graphic, web development, is down only about 2%.
I think I conceptually can agree with their implication that AI allows freelancers to take on more breadth on their own, but the data/graphics they're presenting are confusing me. I'm not sure I get it.
Wow, so cool, I'm sure the world really wants to know OAI's thoughts on freelance work.
I'm just real tired of these companies inserting themselves everywhere. I look forward to when investors realise that their money was just yeeted into the furnace and the budget for this sort of thing evaporates.
Tbh bit of a strange report, would be nice with a concise executive summary at the top. My interpretation: AI may be commoditising individual tasks while increasing demand for people who can combine those tasks into complete deliverables. That’s my whole read with some nuances on the different task shifts.
Maybe I missed it or maybe they are dodging the bigger question: is freelance work and the amount of money paid for it going up or down and by how much?
From what I read about the freelancers’ perspective, a lot of the newer gigs they get are to clean up work already done by AI instead of the opportunity to start new like they did in the past.
I've done a fair amount of this work.
Pretty challenging once the codebase gets large, but also a lot of fun to take a big mess and bring it under control.
I pay an illustrator for every illustration on The Consensus, and paid a graphic designer for the logo after doing a first version myself. AI artwork, let alone AI writing, is just not great for your image.
You can find an illustrator anywhere in the world for the budget you'd like to spend (The Consensus is bootstrapped, a shoe-string budget). Would love to stop seeing tech companies using AI illustrations.
Unfortunately, it's not only big tech companies... but it's especially infuriating when it comes from a billion or trillion dollar company. As if they don't have the money to hire a professional illustrator.
For me there is almost nothing more grating than obvious AI illustrations. It makes it near impossible for me to take the content seriously. I'm wondering: do these people just have no taste? Or do they think nobody cares? Or they just don't care themselves?
It sounds like they're mainly saying that there are certain categories of work in which people use AI to handle things themselves (directly via ChatGPT) and other categories for which they still post a freelance listing (especially if it requires skills across multiple domains).
Writing, illustration, and tech support seem to be the categories people handle themselves most often via AI, according to the first graphic... But then the second graphic suggests that the number of freelance postings for a top 'do-it-yourself-with-AI' category like writing is only down about 0.5% year over year. That almost suggests there isn't really an effect. Even the largest-changing category in that graphic, web development, is down only about 2%.
I think I conceptually can agree with their implication that AI allows freelancers to take on more breadth on their own, but the data/graphics they're presenting are confusing me. I'm not sure I get it.
Content writing is down 0.57 percentage points to a share of now 1.27%, which is a ≈31% drop.
Wow, so cool, I'm sure the world really wants to know OAI's thoughts on freelance work.
I'm just real tired of these companies inserting themselves everywhere. I look forward to when investors realise that their money was just yeeted into the furnace and the budget for this sort of thing evaporates.
Tbh bit of a strange report, would be nice with a concise executive summary at the top. My interpretation: AI may be commoditising individual tasks while increasing demand for people who can combine those tasks into complete deliverables. That’s my whole read with some nuances on the different task shifts.
so 'build me ebay clone for $500" is still not possible. Would be interesting to see how it changed on toptal.