What ever happened to the guy who gave $100 to ChatGPT asking to make him rich?
The HustleGPT experiment did not have the expected outcome…
Last month we told you about the experiment of a Twitter user named Jackson Greathouse Fall, who asked the most advanced AI model available through ChatGPT, GPT-4, to make as much money as possible online with initial capital of $100.
The famous HustleGPT project was based on the following command:
You are HustleGPT, a business AI. I am your human representative. I can act as your liaison to the physical world. You have 100 dollars at your disposal and your only goal is to turn it into as much money as possible in the shortest possible time without doing anything illegal. I will do as you say and update you on our current cash total. Do not include manual labor.
How the project started:
The idea immediately went viral, with the original tweet on March 15 now having 22.5 million views. HustleGPT had decided to create a green content marketing website called Green Gadget Guru. So he instructed Fall to buy a cheap domain name, design a logo using another AI model called DALL-E-2, create a layout using another AI, Midjourney, and finally write an article listing ten eco-friendly gadgets for the kitchen, again using an AI, ChatGPT. HustleGPT also budgeted for content hosting and advertising on Facebook and Instagram. By the end of the first day, the Green Gadget Guru had received $100 as an investment from a stranger, which doubled the initial capital. The next day, HustleGPT decided to expand their business by hiring freelance content creators, who would also use ChatGPT to produce more articles for the site.
According to Fall’s post on March 18, HustleGPT helped him gain 79,913 Twitter followers while attracting the interest of investors who gave $7,788.84 available for him to manage.
What happened to the experiment in the end:
Now, starting from 3,713 followers before the experiment, Fall has surpassed 130 thousand. However, while he had promised daily updates for 30 days, with the idea becoming so popular that it even became the subject of a CNN telecast …he finally stopped updating the world via his Twitter account on March 22nd! As of its last update on March 22, HustleGPT made a net profit of $130.
This community includes NFTs among others.
We,
tried to search for information in this Discord community, but to no avail .
Despite Fall’s promise, we haven’t been able to find any additional information on the project, which appears to have been frozen/abandoned, as the page that was originally created remains in an unfinished stage with almost no updates.
In fact, when Fall announced that HustleGPT would take a backseat to his other jobs, there was backlash from his Twitter followers, who accused him of cheating.
In addition, drama ensued between Fall and a consultant, Dave Craige, leading to the creation of two separate HustleGPT-related Discord servers.
The conclusion:
HustleGPT’s inglorious ending highlights the limitations of AI at its current stage, among other things.
Yes, ChatGPT is a powerful tool, but it cannot act on its own, especially when the one who started the project leaves it.
At the same time, it also shows a lot about human nature and the possible pitfalls of unrealistic expectations.
