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Ways to make money with ChatGPT
ChatGPT can write essays, solve engineering problems and even give life advice. As you can imagine, people fear the new AI tool stealing their jobs or helping students and employees cheat. However, there’s a bright side: You can make money with ChatGPT.
When the calculator first came out, people freaked out about it taking their jobs. Granted, we don’t need to do most math in our heads, but we still have to enter a formula into a calculator to get the result. ChatGPT is also a helpful tool. Here are a few ways to turn it into a money-making machine.
1. Use it to write scripts
ChatGPT is easy to use. Type a prompt like “Make an eight-minute YouTube video about the best beaches in the world” and it will spit out applicable paragraphs you can use.
As YouTuber Franklin Hatchett says, you can make $19K a month by making videos with scripts you get from ChatGPT. You don’t even have to buy a microphone to record voiceovers since there are free text-to-speech programs. On top of that, you can make videos from your browser on Canva, an app you don’t have to pay for.
Here’s how it works:
It doesn’t stop there. You can use ChatGPT to write scripts for podcasts, radio shows, movies, videos and anything else you have in mind.
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2. Find keywords and SEO help
ChatGPT can help generate titles, find strong keywords and create meta descriptions that attract click-throughs. Here are a few directions you can give:
- Suggest title ideas for “Android accessories.”
- Suggest “how to” ideas for “cybersecurity tools.”
- Write an intro for a story about why people need smart homes.
- Summarize this article in less than 160 characters.
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