Tip for people hiring freelancers: if you send out email blasts advertising a ✨ really great opportunity ✨ that looks suspiciously like a W-2 position disguised as a 1099 contractor gig so you don't have to pay benefits, you may not want to send them to the person you spent a literal year not paying for the sample work she did.
(I have now been paid, and assured that they've taken me off their list for real this time. We'll see if they mean that.)
I'm a reporter looking to interview freelancers who have seen demand for their work go down -- or shift -- in the wake of ChatGPT and all the AI image generators.
This is for a story about how freelancers, specifically, have seen demand for their labor change as use of AI has spread.