| > I think that level of automation, ~100%, is unachievable for a business like this, but that's by the by With a little flexibility in your definition, I think you could completely automate it. 1 - Have a cron job that collects trends (maybe a crawler, but perhaps you could get that info via APIs of some social media through your advertising account). 2 - generate the T shirt / whatever design using a generative package 3 - generate and place ads on various sites based on their current memes (mapping determined in step 1) 4 - take orders and send them to a print on demand shirt fulfillment service. This makes your company 100% automated, though some people are required at the fulfillment and delivery steps of course — but your payroll is nil. This reminds me of the stories that appear from time to time in which some old person in Europe is discovered to have died in their apartment but are undiscovered for years because the pension is auto deposited, the utilities are autodebited, and what little mail arrives just comes in through the slot in the door and piles up on the floor. This automated company could almost also survive its owner’s death, except for the tax filings. |
And this is because, again, keeping AI outcomes within a certain range at scale is both amazingly hard and computationally irreducible (i.e. you can't predict its responses at a scale of say 1 million shots, without taking 1 million shots).