I used Craigslist for years to buy furniture, bikes, lawn equipment, tools, etc. until I was catfished 3 times in a row when trying to buy something.
I gave up on it and opened a Facebook account for the first time just to get access to Marketplace. I’ve never had that problem since.
Sorry, but Craigslist’s inability to manage its users killed Craigslist.
That’s not how it is done.
Freelance nurses are a good example of this already in use. It used to be most freelancers would be recruited or apply to local hospitals. Now there are about 4 apps that hospitals force nurses to use.
These apps use AI to aggregate personal information bought on the open market. They use credit information , purchase information etc. to see how desperate a nurse may be for a job and low ball them. Just had a kid, have high credit card debt, just bought a house or car. All of those would make you desperate to take a job and would allow them to lowball you.
It was impossible to cross reference all of that data by a human. Now with AI they can do it at scale and build personality profiles on wage slaves.
Before you ever applied to that job they already know what kind of wage you’ll accept… You never stood a chance.
I haven’t used CL in years but you brought back all the PTSD I had when using that platform.
FB Marketplace isn’t much better but at least you don’t have to deal with the whole slew of different communication platforms.