Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.
A ton of people jumping on the bandwagon promising insane profits from AI. But if you thought for more than 1 second, if they themselves could make this much profit why would they be trying to convince other people to do it.
The reality is they are likely the ones making any money by building up a following making these promises.
Often times this stuff is scams that stopped working, so the scammers pivot to selling the non-working scam to others.
There was a YouTube video a couple years ago that exposed the scam of a couple of twins that were selling SEO'd bottom-of-the-barrel ghostwritten books on Amazon. Instead of using generative AI, they used the cheapest possible online ghostwriters. Apparently Amazon got wise and banned them, so they pivoted to selling their "system."
Edit: here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw "Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins"
The typical scheme that gets people rich since "Rich dad, poor dad", but now it's exponentially easier to do. It's crazy
The hustle? Spam amazon affiliate links, lol. Of course the people pushing this never bother with pushing affiliate links, just trying to sell you the guide on how to do it.
It was a bit before the AI boom, back when the bedrock of the scam economy was mostly gig platforms.
like, it requires a lot, but not exponentially
I had previously thought that the guy was somewhat smart and had it together. After that, I never looked at anything he did the same way again. The nice clothes and car? Yeah, no way he wasn't doing all that on a load of debt.
That said, all his up-to-date management-speak and being 'with-it' when it came to the latest corporate craze, well, I hate to admit it, but it made him a better boss. He was at least trying really hard. Were a lot of the methods just hot air? Yeah, of course. But it was a lot better than a boss that actually thought that they knew what they were doing. My boss just pretended but was otherwise terrified of being left out, and at least he was hungry that way.
Still, after he boasted about his dropshipping business, I knew the guy was mostly hot air and his ventures would change with the wind. I'm glad that particular get rich quick scheme is (mostly) over.