I know a guy from Ukraine who was doing this on fiverr and was making quite a lot of money from US clients. He was doing PCB design though so don't know how well fiverr works for other fields.
This was an interesting raising-awareness project.
And the article says they didn't let the chatbot generate its own responses (and therefore produce LLM hallucinations) but rather used an LLM in the background to categorize user's question and return an answer from said category.
+1 for Niagara. Sad that it's not FOSS but it's very much to my liking and really has helped me to reduce my unintended app use. But it's not for everyone.
And haven't noticed instance specific influx but recently there are a lot of users posting/commenting that have the "baby badge" on Voyager app, meaning the account is new. Feel like this influx of new users already started last week.
Haven't been on reddit since I deleted my account during the blackouts / API fiasco and man, Lemmy/Fediverse has been fun.
Ad:
CAN YOU SOLVE THIS IMPOSSIBLE RIDDLE THAT AI CAN'T SOLVE?!
With OP's image. And then it will have the following once you solve it: "congratz, send us your personal details and you'll be added to the hall of fame at CERN Headquarters"
Uh, may I introduce you to F-droid, the FOSS "appstore".
Edit: adding a link and also the community:
https://f-droid.org/
!fdroid@lemmy.ml