In an industry defined by million-dollar budgets, multinational corporations and enormous development teams, commissioning a video game for just five dollars (well, CA$6.60) may seem a bit surreal.

Fiverr is stressing it won’t use gig worker data to train in-house models (e.g., models that might compete with workers) and that the Personal AI Creation Model can be disabled at any time.

Through this work, we learned that gig economy game development varies greatly from the industry’s expected norms, and that Fiverr’s ostensibly global workforce is actually quite concentrated.