Gordon

Co-Founder @ Audimate | AI workflow automation | ex-Amazon

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@michaelgrltz True. Expectations keep on rising. I am thinking of this as supply and demand. If AI makes work easier, more people can offer it. That raises expectations and shifts demand or value toward skills that AI cannot cover yet. Freelancing is a good place to observe what that is.

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AI may be shrinking some freelance work while growing demand for new kinds.

In Q3 2026 results, compared with a year earlier:
* Upwork: active clients down 10% to 717K, gross services volume down 10% to $914M
* Fiverr: active buyers down 26% to 2.4M, marketplace revenue down 25%

AI probably isn’t the only cause. Both companies also point to economic uncertainty and weaker search traffic. Clients used to find freelancers by Googling something like “hire a logo designer” and clicking through to Upwork or Fiverr. Now Google often shows an AI summary at the top and more people ask ChatGPT instead, leading to fewer clicks to the marketplaces.

Research from OpenAI and Upwork published today offers a few insights:
• Some tasks are common in ChatGPT but rare on Upwork: Professional & business writing makes up 10% of ChatGPT use but just 0.4% of Upwork postings. Customer service & tech support: 6.5% vs. 1.2%.
• Clients want freelancers who can apply AI across more kinds of tasks: chatbots, video production, marketing automation, app integration.
• AI-related projects have bigger fixed-price budgets and involve more hours of work.
• Projects are being bundled in new ways: one posting asked for AI-generated video, editing and motion graphics.

Upwork’s own numbers back this up: spending on freelancers with AI skills grew 55% year over year, to an annualized run rate of ~$450M.

The takeaway: clients aren’t just replacing freelancers with AI. They’re looking for freelancers who use AI to deliver more.

Source: https://t.co/vJ2pQc6mL1

#FutureOfWork #Freelancing #AI

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@heyhey_jumping No matter which side you are on. We cannot put the genie back into the bottle.

It could have came ~5 years earlier. The famous Attention Is All You Need was published circa mid-2017. ChatGPT breakthrough was in late 2022

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@cheenaedo I have built skills to consolidate latest AI news. The problem for me is finding time to read all of it, think critically, and run experiments.

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