1. Who wouldn’t love to make lots of money in a short time? But the question is: “How?” For Jackson Greathouse Fall, all it took was a conversation with ChatGPT.
2. On March 15, 2023, Fall tweeted that he gave GPT-4, the newest version of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, a budget of $100 and one job: turn it into as much money as possible in the shortest time possible.
3. Fall told the chatbot — which he named “HustleGPT” — he was its “human counterpart” and would do everything it said, as long as it was legal, and didn’t require him to do any physical work.
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4. Fall was told to first buy an internet domain with a catchy name and a cheap hosting plan. This cost him under $40. Soon, Fall was running Green Gadget Guru, an affiliate marketing website that posts content about sustainable products.
5. Fall used Dall-E — another AI bot created by the same company — to make the logo, and HustleGPT created the code for the website. Later that day, the first content was released: an article about sustainable kitchen products, written by the chatbot.
6. Fall also spent $40 marketing on Facebook and Instagram, as advised by HustleGPT, and by the end of the day he said he had received $500 from investors.
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7. Three days later, Fall announced that the chatbot had allowed him to employ people to work for Green Gadget Guru. Fall inspired others to use ChatGPT for their own business ideas — with many sharing their experiences on Twitter using the hashtag “HustleGPT.”
8. However, Maggie Harrison, writing for Futurism, notes that the site does not seem to work well, and said it’s strange that a chatbot would want to hire humans to write for it. She wonders if Green Gadget Guru is actually as successful as Fall says it is.
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