Everything I said was based on your comments about the freelancers not having the inclination to do anything for themselves. I am not hostile, I would like some answers, which no one ever supplies.
Further, I believe you do not consider the circumstances that non-native English speakers face when trying to communicate in a predominately English environment. Are they "unskilled, lazy, cheats" when they use AI-based tools to help them improve their English writing skills?
I work with freelancers all the time, and I am more than aware of the issue. Do people, from everywhere, cheat? Yes. Do they use ChatGPT et al. to cheat? Absolutely.
You said,
Jeanne, 100% agree that it is always best to take the time to learn and experiment with writing. But to be fair, it takes a lot of time to master well. And the reality is most freelancers (outside of copywriters) do not have the time or inclination.
This was your argument. If the person doesn't have the inclination to do anything for themselves, then they are lazy deadbeats, not freelancers. I never said you must master the skills, I said you must have marketable skills. If you have none, this is not the place to learn.
Or what about more technical freelancers who have mastered the complexity of programming but not the subtleties of writing persuasive copy for their profiles and proposals?
There is a plethora of information on this site alone. A little bit of reading and work will produce a higher quality proposal.
I can appreciate your points. As the former co-founder of Copyblogger, I wrote often and also had a number of highly skilled writers employed (in fact our internal motto was "The Writer Run This Show".)
I'm glad you understand my concerns. I sincerely, wish you would address them.
And while many of my former colleagues were, like you, highly skeptical of AI in the beginning;
The majority of my work has always been outside Upwork, and it still is. You assume much.
Real AI is amazing, and something I work with, write about, and collaborate with colleagues on in science and medicine. In those realms, it is critical to ensure the authors/creators are informed, asked if the work can be used to build on, permission and consent is obtained, and all legal and ethical points are in place.
Grammarly and all of those programs are predictive. That’s why, if you try to write, "I may be late." Grammarly writes, "I maybe late." I have been working in the AI field for over a decade. There is little call for those skills here.
AI is an amazing field that has enormous potential in fantastic ways in many areas of our lives. The ChatGPT bots, Jasper, etc. plagiarize. This conversation has been ongoing in the science fields for fifteen years. The very real, legal issues are never addressed here. Never. Instead, I receive, why I just don't understand AI. Copyrights and ownership are real issues. There are others, like ensuring the content in the messages, contract, and all work is not on any other online platforms (more than 130 at last count) and that the client be informed of its use.
But to label individuals as "lazy", who rely on writing tools like Grammarly, or spell check, or even using ChatGPT to help them craft words to refine their writing, is highly judgemental and inconsiderate of people who may not have the level of writing talent you consider worthy.
You need to reread my comments. Everything was about your insistence that some of the freelancers didn't have the inclination to do anything but use the ChatGPTbots. Those people are lazy, and will never earn money here. It's not about being "worthy" it's about people being able to get jobs or lose everything.
I'm still waiting for someone to address the legal issues. And whether the information used in the programs was from informed authors/creators who gave their consent?
