chatGPT can save you money

[solon]

We're getting ready to move. I called around to get some estimates on labor. The company we went with is offering a $20 discount if, on moving day, as we're paying the driver, we post a review on Google.

So, obviously, I went straight to chatGPT, asked it to write a review, and saved it in my notes so I can post it on moving day. Took about 1 minute, including a couple revisions.

This guy wouldn't need to buy reviews, he could get 100 of them right now for free.

[nereo]

Interesting, but… it kinda sounds like this is further eroding the usefulness of online reviews. If you’ve already got the review written it can’t possibly reflect your experience? If you aren’t saying anything real about your movers, this only helps you (by saving $20). But ultimately it doesn’t seem to save you very much time over writing a “real” review, which I can write in about two minutes on my phone.

[Ron Scott]

Some government/academic estimates are that 30-40% of online reviews are fakes. Add-in the reviews of nimnuts who write them immediately after opening the box and you’ve got a pretty useless tool.

Take your $20 and enjoy.

[solon]

I've never put any stock in reviews. They're all fake in my experience. There's no way to tell a real one from a fake one, there's no way to understand the reviewer's context, and there's no way to update a review if you change your mind later. Some people get paid to write reviews, some people have a beef against the company, and some people are complete morons. You literally can't trust any of them. I have yet to see a review that helps me in any way.

[afox]

I've never put any stock in reviews. They're all fake in my experience. There's no way to tell a real one from a fake one, there's no way to understand the reviewer's context, and there's no way to update a review if you change your mind later. Some people get paid to write reviews, some people have a beef against the company, and some people are complete morons. You literally can't trust any of them. I have yet to see a review that helps me in any way.

"some people" get paid to write reviews huh. YOU get paid to write reviews. Yelp still works to only have genuine reviews on its website. Most retailers and websites have used reviews to generate additional business regardless of their authenticity. If you went to a stores website and half the reviews were 3 stars would you shop or buy anything there? IKEA is a good example of what authentic reviews look like. People are stupid enough to think that wayfair with its 5 star reviews for nearly everything has quality products while IKEA with its 3-4 star reviews has inferior products. Meh, I dont really care, I benefit either way, if IKEA fibbed the reviews it would be more expensive.

[Bartlebooth]

Front row seat to the downfall of civilization...

[SmashYourSmartPhone]

Gross.  Yet more polluting of the formerly human internet with LLM-generated plausible sounding trash that "sounds like" what humans up through about 2020-2021 wrote.

How many people's time will you have wasted for that $20, if they're trying to determine if this company is any good?  You didn't even review it after you had them perform the service - you lazily let computers pre-write a trash comment.

I hope you feel good about yourself.  You're quite literally part of the reason the internet is becoming useless.  Perhaps if this is your goal... but you do not seem as though you've done it out of active malice in an attempt to foil the internet, just misplaced cleverness.

[ChpBstrd]

Gross.  Yet more polluting of the formerly human internet with LLM-generated plausible sounding trash that "sounds like" what humans up through about 2020-2021 wrote.

How many people's time will you have wasted for that $20, if they're trying to determine if this company is any good?  You didn't even review it after you had them perform the service - you lazily let computers pre-write a trash comment.

I hope you feel good about yourself.  You're quite literally part of the reason the internet is becoming useless.  Perhaps if this is your goal... but you do not seem as though you've done it out of active malice in an attempt to foil the internet, just misplaced cleverness.

I look forward to the day when the internet is a sea of useless AI-generated trash with a few possible human responses speckled around. That will be the day humans stop believing literally any content their screens serve them and are forced to return to interacting with reality.

[GuitarStv]

Gross.  Yet more polluting of the formerly human internet with LLM-generated plausible sounding trash that "sounds like" what humans up through about 2020-2021 wrote.

How many people's time will you have wasted for that $20, if they're trying to determine if this company is any good?  You didn't even review it after you had them perform the service - you lazily let computers pre-write a trash comment.

I hope you feel good about yourself.  You're quite literally part of the reason the internet is becoming useless.  Perhaps if this is your goal... but you do not seem as though you've done it out of active malice in an attempt to foil the internet, just misplaced cleverness.

I look forward to the day when the internet is a sea of useless AI-generated trash with a few possible human responses speckled around. That will be the day humans stop believing literally any content their screens serve them and are forced to return to interacting with reality.

While I admire your optimistic outlook, I don't share it.

[SmashYourSmartPhone]

I look forward to the day when the internet is a sea of useless AI-generated trash with a few possible human responses speckled around. That will be the day humans stop believing literally any content their screens serve them and are forced to return to interacting with reality.

"And that's why we need our own personally trained AIs to wade through the trash and find the good bits for us!" is, sadly, far more likely. :(

It's fine.  The offline humans will have way more fun anyway.

[solon]

Does anyone have any other ways of making a little money with chatgpt?

[Villanelle]

Does anyone have any other ways of making a little money with chatgpt?

I write online articles for a living (NOT reviews).  I've considered having Chat GPT write initial drafts for me, and then just editing.  Only problem is that I'm paid by the hour, with a target timeframe per article, so unless I lied on my timecard, it wouldn't actually save me time or make me more money.  I could likely complete a 2-hour target article in 45-60 minutes, even after editing and fact checking, so theoretically it would allow me to bill 2 hours and only spend 1, but only if I was willing to lie, which I don't think I am. 

I used to have a client that paid by the piece, (and occasionally get a one-off that is) in which case this would have worked quite well.