Hustle bros are jumping on the AI bandwagon

It’s been incredibly annoying seeing so many new grifters pop up seemingly out of nowhere as “AI experts” and the like, promising (and even guaranteeing) random folks that they’ll make millions jumping on this bandwagon. It reminds me of how insufferable so much of the get-rich-quick crypto content was in 2017 and then in 2020&#x2F;2021 (even as a crypto believer myself).<p>Make no mistake, GPT-3, ChatGPT, <i>etc.</i> will, <i>for sure</i>, mint a new generation of millionaires, but it very likely won’t be the random folks sitting on their couch eating ice cream while watching some random grifter’s content on YouTube. At best, the grifters will make lots of money selling courses (as usual) while the folks buying the courses will maybe break even. The real money will be made by the creative entrepreneurs and out-of-the-box thinkers who can come up with innovative uses of these technologies.

Reminds me of the excellent folding ideas video on these sort of scams:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=biYciU1uiUw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=biYciU1uiUw</a><p>In the video he talks about a course (which is a scam) selling a different scam of getting a ghostwriter to write a crappy book, getting someone else to record it, and then publishing it to audible to make money. which seemingly did work for a short period of time but no longer does. I guess this is the same sort of thing, except cutting out the ghostwriter.

It really seems like the internet as we know it is about to break down under an never-ending ocean of ChatGPT spam.<p>Trust and curation should become even more valuable than they are today.

Weird that I&#x27;ve never heard the phrase &quot;hustle bro&quot; before but know exactly who they&#x27;re talking about before even reading

I&#x27;ve already seen several videos talking about how you can use DALL-E or Midjourney to generate really samey-looking AI art and sell posters of it. This kills the whole art market by burying it under spam. Doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;re drawing everything traditionally, using digital tools, or spending hours in front of Stable Diffusion to get it to spit out the image exactly the way you want. Your work will be buried under millions of hustlebros&#x27; spam images.

Hustle bros were there since the beginning of time.<p>Think about that.<p>Every new thing for thousands of years someone always jumped on it for short term $$$ gain.<p>The hustle bros have a firm place in the ecosystem and the internet has just put a magnifying glass on the movement and made the hustle faster and easier.<p>Don’t hate the player (or the game), for they are as old as time.

While not surprising in the least, it is quite sad that all these schemes seemingly always come down to selling courses or affiliate links.

Won&#x27;t Chat-GPT, DALL-E, etc stop being free if so many people flood it with masses of requests?<p>Either they start charging to use these AI <i>resources</i> or embed advertising content - further polluting the quality of the generated output.<p>As the granddaddy of hustlers, P.T. Barnum observed &quot;there&#x27;s a sucker born every minute&quot;.

What are the odds that a year or so ago, the influencers that are AI-pilled today were similarly all-in on Web3 and NFTs?

The funny thing is, about a decade ago in 2011, there was a trend in the art world called &quot;zombie formalism&quot;, which was &quot;a trend for market-friendly abstract painting that took the dead formalist aesthetics of mid-century abstract expressionists and brought them halfway back to life.&quot; It lasted for four years apparently.<p>Since then, an even wider movement that can be dubbed &quot;zombie figuration&quot; has taken up the art world in the last few years:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectator.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-rise-of-bad-figurative-painting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spectator.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-rise-of-bad-figurati...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spikeartmagazine.com&#x2F;?q=articles%2Fdownward-spiral-taste-figures-images" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spikeartmagazine.com&#x2F;?q=articles%2Fdownward-spiral-t...</a><p>So it seems like many popular art scenes were somewhat engaging in creating their own deluge of derivative, samey art, even before this ensuing AI wave.

As a former hustle bro, I can tell you that the only way to make money with AI is to either create an AI tool yourself, or spam.

I still have some hope as I see some group of people started to tackle this space in different angle. Stop approximation as a product, wrap approximation around logic and output the exact result. ChatGPT or Avatar AI is literally approximation as a product.

... who cares?<p>The quality is objectively crap and the AI is not going to get much better. We&#x27;ve definitely hit the point of diminishing returns. What could possibly be next for generated content? It&#x27;s not going to magically develop actual creativity emerging from mere statistical plagiarism. We&#x27;re afraid of the literal average of everything?<p>Even as real human artists inevitably create cool new stuff, does it really matter that a bot can imitate the style later?<p>Also, if a &quot;hustle bro&quot; (dumbest word of the year?) can do it, why not everyone&#x27;s dog too? This is just more pointless fearmongering. The covid years are over and this nerve doesn&#x27;t respond anymore. They need to let it go already.