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  1. this is for @emmaki when you come back. it looks like you were right. if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
  2. markp

    AI-washing

    I've sent customers your way. You don't know it, but I've sent quite a few recently. You need to raise your prices substantially. Your prices are tire kicker prices for people who have no perception of value or who just want quick content, and ironically, the people who leave feedback like this will be those who can barely string a sentence together and need ChatGPT to communicate. The bigger problem now is that people are deciding between using chatGPT to generate content or ordering low-cost writers to do it, and many see low-cost writing services as just throwaway services. If they aren't happy with or do not understand what they receive, they may leave poor feedback or no feedback and will go and use ChatGPT or other LLMs to generate content instead. That is how they are working. This isn't idle speculation. This is how some customers and businesses now operate, and they have told me this is how they now operate to save time and reduce costs. Businesses have created SOP's which include this process. Someone paying 100$ for an article is more likely to discuss their requirements before ordering and communicate any issues than someone who pays 10$ and says, "Meh, whatever," when they get their order. I can't tell you how to set up your gigs, but RTO would eliminate most of these, and so would raising prices. I would also suggest giving people a questionnaire before ordering or asking substantial questions to ensure you are on the same page and there are terms of reference and, in the case of people like this, on the same planet.
  3. I provide AI services off here but make it clear they are AI services (not just hybrid content) but other services. I wouldn't risk it on here. It will probably tank your success score (mine is already in the toilet). With the hordes of people expecting to get cut-price Hamlet there is a high percentage risk of having people decimate your success score. Why? there is a perception that AI content is cheap content and should cost less as its generated content. Ive yet to hear one person make any attempt to address this & that perception is there. you had better have a good reason to justify your pricing otherwise, you are going to be on a hiding to nothing. As for using hybrid content. It's still going to get detected as AI. I spent the whole weekend testing a tool, and it detected every piece of content. Hybrid or AI. No matter how well it was written or what prompts were used. The only way to get it to pass as human-written was to use mostly human-written content. Even content from a certain blog kept coming up as AI-written. Every piece of original content that I put through it passed as human-written. It's the first tool Ive used that is highly effective. There is no way the top-notch demographic is doing this or will do it. To be brutally honest, many have enough of a problem tying their shoelaces, and AI is the only way they can string something together that is understandable. Buyers can see this when the conversation with the seller sounds like it has gone through a food blender while the content is reasonably easy to read and understand (this is something people should be told to check when ordering articles from anyone) I wonder what sellers are telling people, and I have heard some questionable statements being made to customers. I've had conversations with businesses away from here (I had a well-known language school admitting to using it), and many are not scared of using it to save time (this is the #1 reason I've been told they are using it) until you explain the potential consequences (goodbye Google rankings). If they are willing to take risks, that is up to them. A great many businesses are now aware of writers using chat GPT, even when they say they are not, and many state they are going to check for AI content and do not want this. So what are AI writers (oxymoron) telling them? Unfortunately, there are a lot of porky pies being told. Here are some I have heard a lot. #1 The tool you are using is not very accurate, and all our content is written by us & no AI detection tools work ( this is a favourite and used to be true but some tools now are very accurate) #2 The AI detector is detecting the content but google will not (yes, I've heard this a lot) #3 we use special prompts provided by us (this 99% means they copied the prompts), and the content will rank (it doesn't even get indexed) #4 All the paragraphs are short & similar in length because that is how we write them. I really want to hear from anyone how you are going to justify your pricing model and how you will get rid of the perception that Ai content (hybrid or otherwise) is not fit for purpose other than just bland, generated McDonald's content that leaves you and your readers ill after digesting it.
  4. I made a detailed reply to this but it got blocked so I deleted it. These are sites that will ship anything, anywhere and are not certified. With the way things are going on here, it's probably best to assume it's based on if it's not allowed in one country or location then it's not going to be allowed here, and on that basis I am turning away anyone, and anything that looks like it could cause issues. if there is a 1% chance of causing problems that's 1% percent too high for me.
  5. There is a specific demographic that only asks for illegal services. As soon as I see this country the answer is going to be no. Here is a list of things they have asked for. #1 selling research chemicals. (illegal in a lot of states) and if you don’t know what research chemicals are it's not what you think. #2 Selling weed #3 selling fake degrees from well-known universities. #4 selling firearms. In itself not illegal but you don’t want to get on the wrong side of the tos & when you look at the sites and see they are selling fully automatic weapons it’s a big no. #5 selling cocaine. Ive told them it’s not allowed and have been met with “Why’s that”. It’s not legal, duh. #6 selling crystal meth. #7 selling fake driving licenses, ID cards and other forms of ID #8 selling passports #9 selling chemicals to clean dye off stolen bank notes. #10 selling bank notes (probably obtained from the above) #11 selling highly protected species that are not allowed to be sold #12 selling fentanyl. When you look at the individual buying history you can see they have been working with other sellers who should know better and in one case I found a seller who built a carding site & forum for them.
  6. yes, she sleeps behind there a lot.
  7. The cat is only allowed in here when I'm here and the door is kept locked at night. This cat is completely & utterly mad and even tries to drink water out of the fish tank.
  8. If you look closely, you will see a cat in here somewhere.
  9. I learned to code & write games in assembler on a zx81 when i was a teenager. I sold the games for peanuts and wrote them for magazines who published the code in the magazines. this is when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
  10. the price has moved after hours and sold after hours as well. if i had to speculate looking at the recent charts it looks like there are a number of puts in place between 20.85 and 21$. there hasn't been a buyback yet & I Dont want to comment on anything else except to say I dont think seller plus is going to cover this /s
  11. @vickiespencer, my success score isnt much better than his, but I think his communication skills are the least of his problems. If you dig deep enough, you will find out what I mean.
  12. The very bad Fiverr Earnings fell off a cliff. Got demoted to level 2 for some reason. Never asked. Can I recover from this? Maybe. In view of this, I don’t think its appropriate for me to be posting here or handing out advice when I’m not in a position to, and that’s why I stopped. Annus horribilis for so many, many reasons Bad Scaled back (stopped) helping other people as I have spent too much time helping others to the detriment of my business. Received plenty of insults from other people (many sellers who don’t post here who I have helped a lot) after the above. I was really shocked. I decided to pull the plug. Stopped: Semi-formal coaching at my daughter’s university on freelancing and working for yourself. Did this for a long time. No affiliate signup nonsense. Stopped. I was (am) sponsoring a university student (luckily, they are now in their final year) and was asked to help with another. had to pull the plug partially on the second person as earnings fell dramatically. It’s really hard to put across how many seriously intelligent people cannot go to university for financial reasons. It was quite shocking to listen to stories about remortgaging houses and having to take second and third jobs to put children through university. Related to this, was put in touch with, by a very circuitous route, very influential & and generationally wealthy individuals. I was surprised they even talked to me. There was a palpable shock when I told them what I did/do. There was an amusing aside to this when I was asked which department of a university I was sponsoring… The upside: I was given really, really good advice and help. Many are very friendly, very ethical, and have a great deal of empathy. The very Good spent time working with my sister-in-law. She’s incredibly intelligent and smart. She was awarded an OBE recently and is chairperson of many great institutions & trusts. Anyone trying to poke their nose here will not uncover anything. She uses her maiden name. The good. Found this cat when she was three weeks old while out running. I run between 5k and 10k every day in the back of Beyond. Have had some very hairy experiences. Had to feed her through a syringe for a few days. Spends a lot of time on my desk doing things she should not be doing. Still helping: expats. There is a huge demographic where I am, and in other countries, there are seriously talented people looking for something further to do. People bring them to me occasionally. I don’t shove Fiverr in people's faces and don’t shove affiliate links under their noses (Ive never given anyone an affiliate link.I don't expect to, or want to get paid for helping people). I show people how it works and let them make their own decisions. AI… When I speak to people about AI, I start with a couple of things. Don’t be Kodak. We all know the story of Kodak and how they buried the digital camera, which they invented, because it would destroy their current business model. Instead, everyone else released it, and their business got destroyed anyway. First to market doesn’t mean first to succeed, but it gives you a very good head start. There is another thing here as well. Don’t be Nokia, either. They saw the writing on the wall and just sat there saying, “Everything is fine” (room-burning meme) as Samsung and Apple ate them for breakfast.. Don’t be a luddite. I wish you all success. Even people filling my Fiverr inbox with this Merry xmas everyone
  13. Google will not remove content. The only content that qualifies is here https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en That screenshot that person sent is an edited version of another page on Google. Its is 100% fake and unfortunately, many people are doing this nonsense. Google will not remove "bad articles" and certainly not say they will remove any content in 20 days, even if it qualifies. The only way to get content removed is with a DMCA takedown or by pushing the content down the search results with reputation management.
  14. Supprimez le cache de votre navigateur, fermez et rouvrez le navigateur. .j'ai déjà vu cela où tout est supprimé dès qu'il est tapé. J'ai également rencontré des problèmes dans le passé lorsque j'avais tapé la description complète et qu'elle disparaissait également une fois enregistrée. Je vous suggère de mettre d'abord la description de votre concert dans un document Word, puis de la copier et de la coller dans la zone de description afin de ne rien perdre, puis de la sauvegarder. De plus, cette traduction dans la zone de description est littérale et celui qui a utilisé le mot concert a fait une traduction littérale de l'anglais vers le français. il aurait probablement été préférable d'utiliser un mot comme « service ». Delete the cache on your browser and close and open again the browser. I have had this before where the text is deleted as soon as its typed. I have also had problems where I have typed out the whole description and it just disappeared as well when saved. I suggest you put your gig description into a word document first and then copy and paste it into the description box so you do not lose anything when then save it. Also, the wording in the description box is literal. the word "concert" is a literal translation from English to French for the word "gig". it would have probably been better to use a word like "service".
  15. @vickieito my condolences to you & your children.
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