How I Tried to Make Money with AI and Almost Fired Myself

When I heard that AI was earning more than my degree, I sat down, thought about it… and signed up for ChatGPT.

GPT, take my job. I’m tired

It all started with a great revelation: if AI can draw, write, code, and even have tedious conversations on LinkedIn—then why do I even exist? Not a person, just a glitch of nature, a taxpayer, and a Wi-Fi user.

I decided: it’s time to make money with artificial intelligence. If GPT-5 is smarter than me, let it at least pay off the mortgage. Deal?

The plan is genius: do nothing, get paid

My friends and I (well, one friend and two mugs of coffee) sketched out a plan to make money with neural networks:

1. Create a Telegram bot that writes love poems on behalf of a cat.

2. Launch a channel with AI-generated images and monetize through NFTs. (Yes, we’re two years late—doesn’t matter.)

3. Sell landing pages written by GPT and illustrated by Midjourney. We’re producers, not designers.

Everything was perfect except for one thing: it made absolutely no money.

The first $0.00: the way of the samurai

GPT-5 turned out to be a polite but very free partner.
No one wanted to buy landing pages written in the style of, “Welcome to your best client experience in the digital future.”
No one bought the cat NFTs. Not even our third friend, who usually buys anything that sparkles.

When it started to work: yes, it works (sometimes)

But one day we did something that actually took off: we launched a microservice where AI wrote cover letters for resumes.
GPT generated 10 options to choose from, ranging from a modest complainer to a confident alpha-director. After a week, we had 26 payments. After a month—the first positive balance.

Cons, bugs, and philosophy

Once, GPT wrote this instead of a cover letter:

“I am you. You are me. Together we are the system.”

The client declined the job and turned to Buddhism.

Legally, everything AI writes is a gray area.
Morally—sometimes you just want to burn what AI writes.
Financially—you can earn, but don’t fire yourself just yet. GPT still can’t make coffee.

Conclusions:

• You can make money with AI, but you’ll have to work (irony level: “vodka without alcohol”).

• AI works best when a human gives it a proper brief, not just “make it cool.”

• If you don’t have a team—assemble one from ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Notion AI. They don’t fight with each other.

• AI won’t replace people. It’ll just give us a reason to fire others.

For those who want to try:

💡 Choose a narrow niche where you can automate text or visuals.

⚙️ Use GPT-4/5, Midjourney, D-ID, Runway, Zapier.

💸 Start with freelance gigs: landing pages, texts, designs—you can assemble all this from neural network building blocks.

In the future, the job will go not to the best writer, but to the one who knows what to ask from the neural network.