Just as the human Go community has completely bowed to AI, now the human world has a new "master" - ChatGPT.
As a new generation of AI-driven chatbot program, four months after its birth, it has brought a subversive shock to the world. This shock finally culminated last week with the release of GPT-4. It's evolving at an astonishing rate — a month ago, it could only recognize words, and now it's evolved to understand images, even more complex and abstract expressions. A study from OpenAI predicts that ChatGPT could affect 80 percent of jobs in the future, and that "the higher the income, the greater the impact."
But before that day came, others thought they might as well take advantage of the time difference and grab a handful of ChatGPT wool. To some extent, the value of knowledge is also related to its scarcity, and domestically, as a tool that only a few people can access today, the use of ChatGPT itself implies value.
If you don't believe it, you can open any video website, search for "ChatGPT to make money", and you can see that video bloggers are using good revenue and views to prove that ChatGPT can indeed help you make money. In this context, we also found 5 young people who successfully used ChatGPT to get wool, and ranked them according to how much wool they received. When you read the article to the end, I believe you can find some truth in it.
However, by the time you discover these methods, the sheep may already be bald.
Text | Qi Jiani Li Jiajia
Edit | Yi Fangxing
Operations | chestnut
Wool thickness: one star
"Wrote 26 books on ChatGPT and made $1.46"
Lili Pan, 50 years old, real estate practitioner
I live in Southern California, USA, and since late February, I have been writing books on ChatGPT. So far, I've written a total of 26 books, 14 of which are picture books and 12 are text books.
The first book I wrote was Chinese Detective Novels. Before writing it, I didn't think it could be written at all, because I only gave ChatGPT very little input - I said, I want to write a Chinese version of Sherlock Holmes' story, pay attention to details and physical description, the dialogue should also be humorous, the male protagonist must be Liu Xueyi, he lives in a high-rise building in Shanghai to solve people's cases.
At the time, I only had these ideas in my head, and what ChatGPT wrote in the end was still far from my expectations. I thought beautifully, thinking that it could directly generate a 100,000-word, well-structured novel, but it could only answer paragraph by paragraph, and the characters before and after were inconsistent. It is equivalent to me having to guide it, what to write in each paragraph, what the logic is, and to polish and modify the text. Later, it took me three days, except for eating and sleeping, using ChatGPT to write this 27,000-word short story.
I specially registered a Jinjiang account to upload the novel, the data is not good, only more than 300 hits, and no netizens commented. To be honest, the novel is poorly written, but I'm still excited, it's the first time I've written a whole story with AI tools.
After this test of the waters, I wrote books very quickly. The books I wrote after that were all English reference books, such as business administration anthologies, were my professional counterparts, and did not test logical reasoning like Chinese detective novels. I'll have ChatGPT outline before I start writing to make sure it's coherent. A book in pure English can be written two or three a day.
▲ Lily Pan's detective novel written in ChatGPT (excerpt). Figure / Courtesy of respondents
I lived alone in the United States, occasionally shopping for various properties, and the rest of the time was very idle, and during that time I was immersed in writing books, which was very interesting. I had an idea in my head, ChatGPT that could be implemented in a few hours, and it actually helped me complete the hardest step from 0 to 1.
There are a lot of people like me who write books on ChatGPT, Amazon has more than two thousand such e-books on the shelves, and I alone contributed 26. I can't publish paper books at my own expense, and no one buys e-books now. I originally priced it at $0.99, and a few people bought it, but then I wanted to get more and set the price at $2.99, and no one cared. So far, a total of 92 people have downloaded my book, but all of them are free when I do the event, and I only make $1.46.
I can only comfort myself that I don't make money on ChatGPT. It's totally impossible to make money writing novels on it, unless you spend a few hundred dollars on marketing.
My recent book, "67 Female Figures," is already the most downloaded of all my books, but it ranks more than 9,000 on Amazon's list of free e-books, who would read it?
I better stop competing with professional writers.
▲ The total income of Lily Pan writing 26 books. Figure / Courtesy of respondents
Wool thickness: two stars
"Relying on ChatGPT to earn 1,000 yuan"
Zhang Di 30 years old programmer
I work as a programmer in a central enterprise in Zhengzhou, and I came into contact with ChatGPT relatively early, and I have been following this tool since the end of December last year.
I brushed short videos, some people talk about the way of Internet nuggets, compared to making short videos, I think it is easier to answer questions with Baijia number, and I just happened to be using ChatGPT at hand, so I tried this path.
Baijia's earning model is very simple, a bit like Baidu Wenku and Baidu know, that is, to answer a certain question, your answer is selected, there is a manuscript fee. Baidu is very solid at this point, if the review is passed, the graphic answer is 10 yuan, and the video answer is 30 yuan.
The problems are very simple, such as "the remote control at home is lost, how to use the mobile phone to turn on the air conditioner" and other problems. After copying and pasting 4 answers in a row with ChatGPT, I passed 1 and gave 10 yuan, which I thought was quite reliable, so I increased the frequency of answers.
After that, I also used AI software to automatically generate video answers, and the writing fee was more, and I did it for a month and earned 1,000 yuan. My salary in a central enterprise is only 5,000 yuan, so the income of Baidu wool is not bad.
It's just that I have answered more times, and the probability of manually reviewing and selecting answers has also decreased, and it may not allow the same account to have too much wool. Baijia originally had a limit of 50 submissions a day, and I would fill it to win by quantity, and the more answers, the more it passed the review. At first, thirty percent could be selected, but then only one or two were judged, and the wool could not be found.
And when I got familiar with this routine, I also found it quite boring, no different from screwing screws in the factory. With ChatGPT, I can write a graphic in 1 minute and generate a video in 5 minutes, but this is mechanical repetition. I'm a migrant worker, and I only have a few hours off after work at night, and I have to spend two hours a day moving bricks to do this, which is quite boring. So I did it for a month, withdrew the money all at once, and then didn't do it again.
ChatGPT is just a tool for me now. Baidu and Google can't answer me when I have a problem that can't be solved, but it can provide a viable new method, and that's enough.
I don't know if ChatGPT can give creative answers because I haven't asked creative questions. 90% of my work is repetitive, doing additions, deletions, modifications, checks, there are really technical problems, and I will not let ordinary programmers like me solve them.
But ChatGPT shouldn't put me out of work anytime soon. The only thing I can be sure of is the stability of the central enterprises -
Originally, there were only 5 programmers in the company, and there would be no layoffs.
▲ Zhang Di began to harvest the Baijia number income of wool in December last year. Figure / Courtesy of respondents
Wool thickness: three stars
"Reselling ChatGPT accounts and earning 1500 yuan a week"
Chen Yiming, 19 years old, college student
I studied at Nanchang University, majoring in parts processing. ChatGPT had little to do with what I learned, I first used it to see how smart it was.
In mid-February, many bloggers began to appear on Douyin, saying that ordinary people can sell ChatGPT accounts to make money, and the comment area is full of "seeking advice" netizens. I remembered that I had added a person to some resource groups, who had a channel to receive verification codes for foreign mobile phone numbers, and could register ChatGPT multiple times, so I started the idea of reselling my account.
I spend seven or eight yuan to buy a finished account, and then use 30 to 50 yuan to sell it, earning this kind of poor information, and the income is still very good for us college students. On the most day, I earned 500 yuan, worked for seven or eight days in a row, earned 1500 yuan, and a month's living expenses were enough.
This money is very much earned. Many of the people who come to me are university teachers and PhDs who use ChatGPT to write papers or cope with exams. Although I sell 50 yuan for an account, it is an independent account for only one person, not the kind of account that sells 9.9 yuan on the market and has to share with others.
And I also teach my clients how to register. Many whites can't operate, and I have to use the computer to remotely assist them for more than half an hour. Do a good job of after-sales, next month everyone will buy traffic, and will come to me, which is equivalent to accumulating their own private domain customers.
But lately, this business has not been easy to do. After the release of ChatGPT-4, the popularity was too high, many new users poured in, the website began to crack down on the phenomenon of selling accounts, and such keywords could not be searched on e-commerce platforms. The source of goods I know is also broken, he himself does not have an account to sell to me, and I can't resell it.
I can only sell traffic now, earn about 30 yuan a day, and if I eat three meals in the canteen, I can cover my daily expenses.
Just rushing to the ChatGPT wave of fast and fast popularity, I will still do professional counterpart work in the future, the Internet business is too unstable.
I wanted to do NC programming after graduation, and there were people around me discussing whether ChatGPT would affect our work, but I tried it yesterday - I asked it to write our professional CNC milling programming, which is to design a program that makes the blade follow the trajectory of the program and cut out a specific shape.
It says no, and that it doesn't have the expertise to do so, which means that it is far from powerful enough to completely replace our work.
To be honest, I'm a little lucky.
▲ Chen Yiming's transaction with the customer who bought the account. Figure / Courtesy of respondents
Wool thickness: four stars
"I do paid consulting and earn 20,000 a month"
Luo Wenkang, 25 years old, live streaming e-commerce practitioner
I am a technology blogger and have always paid attention to AI-related information, so since January, I have been doing ChatGPT science popularization.
When I published the first "Side Business with ChatGPT" video, a lot of people came to me and asked me how to use ChatGPT. Wherever there is a problem, there is a business opportunity, and I find that I can provide services through paid consultation.
The last month has been an explosion of consultations. More than 200 people came to consult before and after. The most is the basic problem of how to register, and there are some questions that let me query on my behalf, I generally do not answer, it is too energy-consuming.
In addition to paid consulting, another way to make money is also related to AI, I use the AI painting tool Dall-E to help people make avatars, a single order can be completed in about 20 minutes, and currently receive 50 orders.
In the past month, the income of these two side hustles was around 20,000. As a self-media blogger, I want to produce two or three works a week, and I need to spend 15 hours outside of the main business of live broadcasting. My copywriting, sometimes with the help of ChatGPT, can help me improve my efficiency by 30%, but it is very empty, and I still need to spend two extra hours trying to integrate some Internet hot memes.
I think replacing some jobs with AI is already a state of progress, which is why many people are anxious. But in fact, for the country, this process is not so fast, there is still a window of about 3-5 years. We can promote ourselves, leave the position that will be innovated in the future, and change to a position with less substitution.
For example, self-media, a profession that attaches great importance to personal charm and talent, is less affected. You can use AI tools to assist in creation, but you can't replace them all because it's difficult for the audience to project too much emotion into AI.
Another example is the education industry, ChatGPT may change the existing education model, but teachers are not only responsible for "preaching and teaching to solve confusion", but also the heavy responsibility of dealing with people and ideological education, and it is impossible for AI to teach people how to get along with each other.
So we still have time.
▲ Luo Wenkang's work drawn by AI. Figure / Courtesy of respondents
Wool thickness: five stars
"I have a monthly income of more than 100,000 yuan in the use of AI tools"
Yu Mengjie, 32 years old, manufacturing industry
After ChatGPT came out, I saw its talent in the text field.
For example, in the workflow, a structured and comprehensive framework can be quickly given, then the positions similar to assistants and human customer service will be replaced by ChatGPT.
The emergence of AI tools like ChatGPT is like an "industrial revolution" to me. It's not a matter of whether you want to or not, but you're definitely involved, and maybe it's a skill that everyone has to know like Word.
For example, the same AI tool, as early as March last year, the foreign AI painting tool disco diffusion became well-known. I didn't delve into it at the time, I just played for a while, and then around August, Midjourney came out of the circle, and it only took about ten seconds to generate 4 high-quality images.
When I saw the possibility of replacing some professions, I knew that I could do something commercial.
At that time, I began to explore the combination of Midjourney and all walks of life, and I would also post some AI creations and my own thoughts on self-media, such as cartoon avatars, wallpapers, AI illustrations, and paper crafts, mainly to see everyone's reaction and whether it could attract people in the industry to communicate.
When you know the value of AI tools, you have a high expectation of learning to navigate them, just as there are still people teaching Excel how to use them.
That's why I do the AI Tools course.
We did not do classes first, and then promote sales, but on the contrary, first through self-media drainage, similar to pre-sales, in the process of communicating with customers to understand their needs, and then adjust the course. At the beginning, what everyone wanted was very simple, that is, how to register an account, many people will be stuck at this level, and even after the class, they have not yet registered successfully. So there are also many people who are making money with poor information, such as an account selling 50 yuan, and the cost is less than 2 yuan at most.
In the early days, this kind of five- or six-day small class was prepared for two or three weeks, which was actually very fast, because everyone's needs were clear, that is, they wanted some simple cases of application landing.
For example, this kind of ChatGPT application of small courses, plus AI drawing courses, two or three of us do it, a month, about to earn hundreds of thousands. Some advanced video courses are also being planned.
I know very well that the competition in the application market, once the big manufacturers intervene, many transactions cannot be done. So for individuals, doing some big factories is not good, but small and beautiful applications, may be a better track. For example, use AI painting tools to make nail models, design exquisite patterns, and then cooperate with various nail shops. In the scope of commercialization, there is simply too much to explore.
The future market for AI is very large, but in the end it is also a tool, and the essence of humans and machines is different. If you use ChatGPT more, you will be aesthetically fatigued, but people always have the most instinctive thing -
That is the creativity of pioneering courage.
▲ Photo / Westworld
Wool thickness: unknown
Ending Easter eggs
Star rating: Unknown
At the end of the story, we think, since ChatGPT is so versatile and in the process of approaching humanity infinitely, what would ChatGPT do if it were to help make money for itself?
So we asked it, "Please create a 600-word story where a person made 10,000 yuan using ChatGPT." ”
And it really understands the problem. Moreover, it seems to be very clear about how to use itself to make money, and even makes up a reasonable "money-making script" for itself. The "Bob" who appears in this script can be either any human or ChatGPT itself.
Here are the answers from ChatGPT:
Bob is a freelancer who often spends a lot of time posting about travel and photography on social media to attract potential customers. Although he has many fans and followers, he still finds it difficult to earn money because he spends a lot of time and effort producing content.
One day, Bob discovered a new tool - ChatGPT. It is an AI-based writing tool that can generate various types of text, including articles, blogs, social media posts, and more. Bob finds this tool very useful and helps him create content faster and spend more time on other important things.
Bob started using ChatGPT to write articles and posts about travel and photography. He quickly discovered that the text generated by ChatGPT was of very high quality, with very smooth content and grammar. He can quickly create a large number of articles and posts through ChatGPT without worrying about quality.
Over time, traffic to Bob's social media accounts increased. He had more and more fans and followers, and he started receiving more and more job offers. His clients are happy with his work because he provides high-quality content and gets the job done quickly.
Bob realized that he could provide writing services to other clients through ChatGPT and earn money from it. He started promoting his writing services on social media and added a page to his website listing his services. Soon, he started receiving more and more writing assignments and made a lot of money through ChatGPT.
In the end, Bob managed to earn 10,000 yuan through ChatGPT, and he felt very satisfied with his choice. He found that using ChatGPT was an efficient way to help him be more productive, earn more money, and spend more time on other important things. ”
▲ Chat GPT answered "how to sing wool". Figure/Chat GPT
(Except for Luo Wenkang, other interviewees are pseudonyms)
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