Chinasa O wrote:
What I found funny in this thread is that a client came to complain, and freelancers took over the thread doing the same thing. If the freelancers are complaining too, who then is committing this heinous crime of using ChatGPT? Of course, I am new to Upwork, and I have completed only one order. But I think it doesn't sound right to me that a freelancer is thinking that Upwork should shut down their business model because more people are adopting it and generating more income for them.
There is what everyone - freelancers and clients can do to solve this problem.
To the clients, chose anyone and call for a 1:1 meeting with them. During the interview or meeting, yoou would know if he/she would deliver or not. I personally like to invite clients to my inbox instead of attaching the samples of my previous jobs. However, I also noticed that most clients don't like it. They prefer people attaching samples even if such samples were generated by ChatGPT.
Now to the freelancers, whether you are an expert or not, instead of complaining about the high bids from incompetent freelancers, you too should also boost your original and unique proposal.
I am sorry if my contribution here offends you. My siblings don't like how I judge issues as well. Lol.
Peace!
I will gladly disagree.
First off, it's not about who is "committing crime" because using ChatGPT is not a crime per se (although it should be, given how much of the intellectual content has been stolen to create this bot, without consent, without compensation to the original authors), it is people unable to think on their own that take over the platform because it is way too easy to generate "offer" for the client using artificial tools that "think" for them. If we do remove the human factor from just about any activity, then sure, go ahead. It won't last long until it collapses but some folks will "benefit" from this anyways, if only for a while. This seems to be modern model of "business" - use and abuse, get your pockets full and disappear. Frankly, I am old date human being, independent in my thinking, and I will not take part in it, nor do I approve it. That is why I am fully against ANY AND ALL usage of AI on this platform. If the client is unable to write properly and formulate their requirements, they should go back and learn how to do it because I will not deal with primitive mind, not able to communicate on their own. If the freelancer is unable to clearly and precisely state their ability to perform a task the client requires, they should go back and learn how to do it. UW embracing use of AI is making everyone loose EXCEPT for UW naturally. If applying for "jobs" is as easy as to ask ChatGPT about "professional" text and then throw some connects so the UW is fed with money, then there should be clearly stated in ToS - "This service is meant for AI and for AI only". Real people simply disappear in the crowd of unskilled, irrelevant, straight primitive bots that call themselves clients or freelancers.
Second, I stated this countless times - I will not fund people abusing me. Boosting proposal is predatory technique, against which many posted arguments, and valid ones, yet UW in their absolute disconnection from reality decided to implement it anyways. The health of the platform is lowest from the beginning when I joined, and I used to work when it was called oDesk and Elance. Feeding this monster is counter-intuitive for anyone able to think on their own but as I see, not many of those are left in the crowd of bots that plague the platform.
Third - I personally do not make video or phone calls. See, there are people that are extremely introvert and focused on the work, not chit-chat. I hate talking to people and I don't do it, keeping all communication via written messages. I am not going to change the way I work because that is the way I function in life overall.
No offense taken, as per your last statement. I just find it funny how people that have no idea about what is really going on under the sugar coat of lies that UW is selling to the new freelancers, try to find solution to the problem that has been given solution by many. Sadly, UW don't give a flying *** about logic so here we are, burried under bots.
