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Gig Marketplace Fiverr wants to let freelancers train AI on their bodies of work and use it to automate future jobs.

At an event on Tuesday, Fiverr announced the launch of several new efforts aimed at attracting gig workers to its platform and equipping them with generative AI tools.

Perhaps the most ambitious is a program that will give freelancers doing

voiceover, graphic design, and certain related work the ability to train AI on their content

and to charge customers for access. The gig market has been particularly hard hit by the advent

of cheap, widely available generative AI tech. A recent report found that AI tools like image generators and OpenAI's ChatGPT

have led to more competition for fewer roles, with writers, programmers, and app developers

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