Get rich now! AI has great ideas to help everyone earn “passive income” . . .

Photo above - Oh no . . . it can't be true! 11,000 books are published every day, and most were written by AI? Wait . . . was this image produced by ChatGPT too? The walls are closing in on us.


Who DOESN’T want money for nothing? According to Artificial Intelligence, you can get rich (slowly?) by using ChatGPT.

The link below appeared in “Go Banking”, which is a notorious source of bad advice, AI amalgamations of other news items, and product placements. Their recommendation to use ChatGPT to flood the planet with AI produced gobbledygook might be an example of any of these. Or all 3 at once.

Please not that ChatGPT is not free. According to the recent flood of product release announcements, the new version 5.0 has a $20 monthly fee (basic features only). There are 5 higher trim levels to pick from, like buying a car. Some ChatGPT ,models may come with heated seats and a power moonroof, but I didn't do a deep dive on this.

Of immediate interest to wanna-be authors: you can easily use ChatGPT to create an entire novel and publish it online in just moments. How many readers can you hoodwink into buying your online book, possibly priced as low as 99 cents? If 21 people take the bait, you’ve already broken even. If you publish 50 books a day like this, the sky’s the limit, right? Don't forget to put an AI generated image of a busty lass or swashbuckling prince on the cover. You can create those in a jiff too.

Here’s the problem – there are 6 million books published annually. That’s only the ones in English. 11,000 a day. Yikes – a new novel every 8 seconds! Is it possible that this AI generated word tsunami is already pushing us over the cliff, to literary oblivion? What chance would “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Moby Dick” have if they went up against 6 million other new titles at the same time? (Full disclosure – Moby Dick only sold 3,000 copies during Herman Melville's entire lifetime).

Okay, so the death of actual literature may be at hand, due to AI. If I want to act more ethically, can I instead make passive income by using AI to write fake product reviews, instead of exploiting middle school readers? If anyone believes that a brand-new product has just 347 reviews on Amazon, but they are all 5-star, those shoppers deserve what they get, right? (This writer just spent $89 on a garden hose reel that broke the second day. I cannot rule out the possibility that fake reviews may have been involved.)

If you want to go for the big bucks, forget the 99 cent pulp novel scam. One study (link below) found that there are more fake scientific papers now being published than legitimate ones. "Millions of dollars" are at stake in in government research grants of course. I'm abandoning my unfinished novel, and asking ChatGPT to write a federal grant application to fund my research into whether cat owners experience lower levels of bird-related anxiety. Birds aren't' real, you know.

So let’s return to the Go Banking article itself, telling us how easy is to scam the world with ChatGPT. Is possible this article is an example of that same strategy? An AI generated product review simply to boost sales, written by ChatGPT 5.0 itself?

You can’t rule it out. And be sure to visit Go Banking's fine participating advertisers, while you think it through.

I'm just sayin' . . .

5 Ways To Use ChatGPT To Earn Passive Income

Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science' – DW – 08/05/2025