Freelancing 2025: 3 Non-Obvious Ways to Make Money While Everyone Sleeps

(What is not written about in blogs yet)

🔹 1. "Shadow assistant" for neural networks

🧠 What's the point:

You work “in the shadows” - helping AI to be smarter, but without publicityThis is necessary for companies that do not want their know-how to leak to competitors.

Real tasks:

• Adjust ChatGPT responses to the client's branding (secret training)
• Collect specific data: rare dialects, dialogues with “live errors”, realistic scenarios

🛠 How to start:

• Join developer chats: Discord, Matrix, Telegram groups
• Explore platforms like InvisibleLabor — a new service for hidden AI tasks

📈 Why it will take off:

• Companies are starting hide your "digital DNA" - communication style, tone, data processing
• Legislation (GDPR, AI Act, etc.) forces us to “clean up traces” when training models

💬 Example:

"Andrey is a freelancer from Poltava. He helps one fintech company set up ChatGPT so that the client style is informal, but legally correct. His name is nowhere to be found, but he gets a stable $700 per month for 3-5 hours per week."

🔹 2. Seller of "digital clones"

🤖 What's the trick:

You create simplified digital twins for people or companies: voice, style, behavior.

Who needs this:

• For small businesses - bots with the owner's voice to process applications
• Freelancers - autoresponders in their style, so as not to get upset during chats
• For psychologists, experts, coaches - "talking avatars" for FAQ

⚙️ Tools:

• VoiceLab — voice generator for CIS
• ClonaMe - makes a clone from 3 photos and 10 minutes of audio

💸 Why it works:

• People don't want a perfect copy - it's enough for them to "look alike"to save your time

💬 Example:

"Marina makes voice clones for nutritionists. For $50, she creates an answering machine that talks about rates and schedules — with the client's voice. People hear "their Marina," while she rests."

🔹 3. Anonymous creative for "inconvenient" niches

🕶 What are we talking about:

Some niches want stay in the shadows, although the projects themselves are legal. Freelancers are needed here, who they don't show off their portfolio and name.

What can be done:

• Design development for brands in the niche CBD, crypto, bio-hacking
• Writing scripts and text for erotic visual novels, role-playing games
• And even creating mascot art for “closed” NFT communities

🔐 Where to look for orders:

• Encrypted messengers: Session, Status
• Closed exchanges: ShadowWork - double verification platform

🤔 Why it is ethical:

• The projects do not violate the law
• You maintain privacy - yours and the client's

🧭 Conclusion: how to choose a direction?

If you are tired of the banal “copywriting/design” and want to fit into the future - this is your chance. But remember:

✅ These niches require more flexibility,
✅ You won’t always be able to “show off your work”,
✅ But there is also competition here an order of magnitude less.

📌 Mini-checklist: which path is yours?

💡 If 2+ "Yes" - try one of the ways.

Author: Alex