I like ai as a hobby but im not sure if i should try getting money from my hobby?
Im just wondering as i feel ai tools are getting more and more hard to run locally due to system and tech going up.

Ive wondered if its even possible to earn using ai as a assistant, not to do all the work but to help here and there.

Or should i not even bother with ai stuff?

For some reason im hyper focused on starting something or making money on my own.

  • VeryVito@lemmy.ml
    3·
    23 hours ago

    There are two ways to make money, and both of them are fleeting: Creating new cutting edge AI services (EXPENSIVE) or consulting others who are asking the same questions you are (CHEAP, but requires the usual salesmanship and won’t be lucrative for long as others start to recognize these same truths).

    If you create a capable LLM or other model that is more efficient, reliable and/or less expensive than others on the market, then maybe. But if you don’t already have the resources to do that (ie, if you plan to use an existing AI as a service), then no, you will simply be a consumer and not a producer.

    That’s not to say you can’t find uses for it, but there’s nothing you can do with it that all the other users won’t be able to replicate without paying you.

    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip
      5·
      14 hours ago

      Basically, it can make you money the same way crypto and every other multi-level marketing scheme before it can, by selling people on the idea that they can also sell the idea…

      It’s mostly horseshit. The stuff they let us play with isn’t what they’re aiming to use “AI” for.

      Like everything else: In life there are no get rich quick schemes, but we live in a world of get richer quick schemes.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        Basically, it can make you money the same way crypto and every other multi-level marketing scheme before it can, by selling people on the idea that they an also sell the idea…

        That’s only if they own stocks in it…

        With AI they got grifted into believing they could “learn skills” that would be valuable once AI became popular. Instead they sunk their own time and electricity into training the AI so people without those “vibe skills” could get the same result. Everytime they’re trying to get an AI to do something, all they’re doing is making it easier for the AI to do it next time.

        They’ve literally been making themselves redundant this whole time