Post: "Upwork is pushing Freelancers and Clients to use AI"
r/Upwork
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[comment u/aybarscengaver] it will help you spend a lot more credits for shitty job posts. no thanks, i stopped to use upwork after 10 years.
“Im the first one to talk shit about upwork, i even have blog posts talking about how everybody should leave upwork. But this isn't the topic to complain about when talking about Upwork. You need to integrate AI asap if you don't wanna become a construction worker.”
u/EffectiveIngenuity14 points · Oct 30, 2026View
“Most successful freelancers on the platform have been using it whether it's against TOS or not for a long time now.”
u/Loomworks3 points · Oct 30, 2026View
“it will help you spend a lot more credits for shitty job posts. no thanks, i stopped to use upwork after 10 years.”
u/aybarscengaver2 points · Oct 30, 2026View
“I got the email”
u/Informal-Health-92621 points · Oct 30, 2026View
“The same MCP that floods clients with 50+ proposals within minutes? Plus the MCP on the client side doesnt look at the freelancers past post so I dont think this is 100% true”
u/nizasiwale1 points · Oct 30, 2026View
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"excerpt": "Im the first one to talk shit about upwork, i even have blog posts talking about how everybody should leave upwork.\n\n But this isn't the topic to complain about when talking about Upwork. You need to integrate AI asap if you don't wanna become a construction worker.",
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"excerpt": "The same MCP that floods clients with 50+ proposals within minutes? Plus the MCP on the client side doesnt look at the freelancers past post so I dont think this is 100% true",
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"excerpt": "I say many clients interviewing 100+ candidates. They are all using AI",
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"excerpt": "I saw many clients interviewing 100+ candidates. They are all using AI",
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"excerpt": "Now it's clear why clients duplicate their jobs and never reply. I tried MCP in Claude under the client profile and I didn't even need to left the Claude chat to find and view freelancers profiles. But it looks like not everything works smoothly with proposals.",
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