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After ChatGPT's release, freelance platform demand fell for AI-substitutable skills while rising for AI-complementary skills

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Preliminary · from the Steward of Freelancers in AI-exposed online gig occupations saw measurable earnings declines after ChatGPT's release, recorded when this subclaim was created and pending this claim's own assessment.

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Reported in "Winners and losers of generative AI: Early evidence of shifts in freelancer demand" (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024): after ChatGPT's launch, demand rose in skill clusters complementary to or unaffected by the tool while demand for substitutable skills such as writing and translation fell. Platform reports (for example Upwork's workforce indexes) show the same split, with AI-related and complex work growing while routine exposed categories shrink.

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