Make money with AI

You can, but rarely the way the "earn thousands a month knowing nothing" videos paint it. AI is for doing faster a job someone is already willing to pay for; what it doesn't do is get you clients or replace having something to offer. The people who make money with it tend to be those who already had a trade, a business or an audience, and use it to produce more or better.

What usually confuses people is mixing up two things: making money using AI (saving hours in your work, serving more clients) and making money selling AI (courses, agencies, generated books, prompt packs). The second is where most of the promises are and where most people compete offering the same thing. What's more, almost nobody counts the costs: subscriptions, learning time, advertising and the hours you spend checking what the AI gets wrong. Income without subtracting all that isn't income, it's a headline.

What I do on this blog is actually try it and share the numbers, however they turn out. We don't sell data; we sell knowledge and experience, and here the experience includes the failures. I tell it in the series "Can I build a business that pays me a salary?", in five parts: the research, the launch, the advertising, the performance analysis and the final question of whether it was worth it. And I have another possible series in the pipeline, on books made with AI on Amazon.