[paxys]

Don't be fooled by the glamorous facade of such "influencers". It's as tough a grind as any corporate job. There is 24x7 demand for new content. You have to compete with a million others in the space, and it is next to impossible to set yourself apart. Only the top 0.1% have any real viewership and are making money. For the rest, the "living frugally" part you mention is likely not by choice.

[janalsncm]

Yes, for anything with essentially zero barrier to entry you better believe you will be competing against everyone on the planet.

[notahacker]

And whilst churning out bad takes about AI on Twitter is about the lowest hanging fruit out there for LLMs, it's a fair bet none of these 'experts' on 'AI disruption' have outsourced their tweets to one yet...

[scarmig]

I would put good money on the bet that there's at least one influencer primarily using ChatGPT to generate their content.

Spam of all sorts is the one category that ChatGPT can do with cheap, superhuman performance today.

[notahacker]

Oh I'm 100% sure ChatGPT can do it brilliantly, I just suspect that most of the people trying to be 'AI influencers' (i) actually enjoy coming up with middlebrow takes on AI, reading others' middlebrow takes on AI and monitoring their timeline for retweets and (ii) lack the tech skills to set the ChatGPT API up to tweet on their behalf...

[bluefirebrand]

Just think, you could make months of blog posts about your journey to get ChatGPT to generate pro-AI tweets for you.

And then you can follow that up with your journey to get ChatGPT to give you the code for a system that hits CharGPT and then posts the tweet automatically.

And then you go silent and the money keeps rolling in because ChatGPT is grifting your viewers on your behalf now!

[notahacker]

When you put it like that, it sounds almost tempting.

[stametseater]

If it were easy, everybody would be doing it.

[maxilevi]

That's not completely true. Information asymmetry is a thing after all

[JohnFen]

I wouldn't, no matter how easy it is. I'd rather do work that at least has some value and meaning.