{"slug": "fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai", "title": "Fiverr is Busted, Maybe It Needs More AI", "summary": "Fiverr CEO's warnings about artificial intelligence displacing human workers were contradicted by the platform's own technical failures, as a user reported being unable to cancel a suspected scam order or access basic customer support functions. The user encountered a seller repeatedly demanding additional payments through the platform's \"gig extras\" system, but found that Fiverr's cancellation feature, abuse reporting tools, and customer support were all non-functional across multiple browsers. The incident undermines the CEO's AI doomsday rhetoric by highlighting that Fiverr's core platform still lacks fundamental reliability and scam prevention mechanisms.", "body_md": "The Fiverr CEO recently made a hilarious statement regarding how AI is COMING FOR ALL OF US LOL. Here's what he said:\n\nSo the AI doom and gloom train continues. But one need to look no further than Fiverr itself to realize what a crock of baloney this is. I'm currently dealing with what I believe is some kind of scammer who says I need to pay for extra. First, the seller sent me a request to modify the order, which I promptly accepted.\n\nUpon accepting that, my order total did not update. So I opened a request with Fiverr customer support. They were of no use and basically said I need to purchase gig extras, so I did that, despite having to pay even more fees. After doing so, the seller kept requesting for more money, and so that's where I figured it's a scam. No problem right? I can first go ask the seller to cancel the order, right?... Right? No. Wrong. That part of the system doesn't work. So I tried 3 different browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Safari) with all ad blockers disabled.\n\nAlso, the seller kept requesting more money, so I figured I'd report some abuse. That's reasonable right? WRONG. THAT DOESN'T WORK EITHER.\n\nAt this point I'll just wait for the order time to pass and then hope I can cancel it that way. But the point of all this is that someone needs to either tell the Fiverr CEO to [vibe code](https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang=en) harder or maybe scale back his AI doomsday rhetoric, at least until his own damn site works. What a joke.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai", "canonical_source": "https://devcodehack.com/fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai/", "published_at": "2026-05-26 14:45:33.183670+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-26 14:45:36.890944+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Fiverr", "Fiverr CEO"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fiverr-is-busted-maybe-it-needs-more-ai.jsonld"}}