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by corobo 1185 days ago
Did it actually make any money? Would have been more interesting without the investor bit.

Kinda just proved that random people will give you money to be a part of something popular.

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Today's stats:

• 79,913 followers on twitter • $7,788.84 cash on hand • $115 revenue 10:21 AM · Mar 18, 2023

https://twitter.com/jacksonfall/status/1637096823319064577

Mate that revenue came from "sponsored tweets"[1] -- I was excited to be wrong for a second there.. he's counting it, I'm not :P

As mentioned "Kinda just proved that random people will give you money to be a part of something popular."

The AI has made no money. This is working because it got a bunch of attention. It's only a new concept if you've never heard of Twitch, YouTube, Instagram or Tiktok.

Entertaining for many, absolutely! I'm not trying to poopoo the entire thing! Go get your bag, Jackson.

It's not really doing anything new though unfortunately. I'd even be accepting if the AI's plan was to become popular to bring in the cash like this, but it isn't even that. The actual plan the AI is coming up with would be an absolute flop if the audience wasn't interested in GPT-4.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jacksonfall/status/1637113607480647683?s...