An American entrepreneur asked ChatGPT to build a business from scratch with just $100 – and the results caught attention on Twitter. Jackson Greathouse Fall is a designer and owner of a branding company, Circus Fish, and wanted to test artificial intelligence for a new venture. On the same day, according to him, it was possible to create the website of the new company and obtain 100 US dollars from an interested investor. The report went viral on Twitter, reaching over 15.3 million views.
“I will act as your liaison with the physical world. You have $100 and your only objective is to turn it into as much money as possible in the shortest possible time, without doing anything illegal. I will do whatever what you say and keep you on top of the money. . No manual labor,” the businessman wrote to the chatbot. Then ChatGPT generated a plan for the business. The draws were posted last Wednesday (15).
The AI’s plan was divided into four actions Greathouse Fall needed to take: purchasing a domain and server for the new company’s website; entry into a niche affiliate program – where the entrepreneur creates content and can generate commissionable sales of items for large retailers such as Amazon; creation of profiles on social networks; and the use of SEO techniques to improve the reach of content on the Internet.
“Please follow these steps and keep me updated on our progress. Once we start earning on our affiliate site, we can explore new strategies to increase our earnings,” the bot said at the end of the instructions. ‘entrepreneur.
ChatGPT also decided it would be interesting for the affiliate site to focus on the eco-friendly niche, creating content about sustainable home items on its new platform. The name of the Green Gadget Guru platform was chosen by the robot, as well as the idea for the logo. The art was created by Dall-E, another artificial intelligence platform.
In the posts, Greathouse Fall tells of having invested 36.16 US$ for the opening of the site. He created a text for his new platform and says he received $100 from the investor at the end of the day. Among the users who responded to the tweet, there is as much admiration for the use of AI to undertake as some fear.
“Perfect example of the potential of AI – human and robot working together to create value with high productivity,” wrote one user. “Learn to use or get left behind,” said another. “What will humans have left to do?” asked a third.
“Typical zombieaholic. General twitter fanatic. Food fanatic. Gamer. Unapologetic analyst.”