Scott SantensApr 22, 2023

"In January 2023, she welcomed a new member to her team: ChatGPT. At $0 an hour, the chatbot can crank out more content much faster than freelancers and has replaced 3 content writers she would have otherwise hired through freelancing platform Upwork."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/04/20/ive-never-hired-a-writer-better-than-chatgpt-how-ai-is-upending-the-freelance-world/

‘I’ve Never Hired A Writer Better Than ChatGPT’: How AI Is Upending The Freelance World

While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves.

Forbes
Show threadScott Santens

Remember when a pandemic happened and the government was like, "Oh shit. Freelancers can't claim unemployment benefits. We should fix that." And then freelancers got $600 a week? And then the govt was like, "Emergency over. Freelancers are fine now."

Remember that?

Good times.

Apr 22, 2023 at 12:50pmWeb
Show threadScott SantensApr 22, 2023

Everyone needs a secure floor under them, especially freelancers who work without a safety net to catch them. Freelancers need to push for universal basic income.

A universal floor is how to protect everyone.

No one's income should ever crash to zero.

https://www.scottsantens.com/engineering-argument-for-unconditional-universal-basic-income-ubi-fault-tolerance-graceful-failure-redundancy/

An Engineering Argument for Basic Income

Utilizing fault-tolerant design in critical life support systems

UBI Guide