Can one ChatGPT prompt help you earn $100K?

[Coder53]

Gene Marks has his weekly small business tech roundup on Forbes and the headline grabber is whether a single ChatGPT prompt can help you earn $100,000. It refers to a piece by Rachel Wells describing a repeatable ChatGPT workflow, using Skills or scheduled tasks, that hunts for paid speaking gigs, workshops and webinars matched to your expertise. The prompt is meant to find credible leads, check whether pay is confirmed and point you at the decision makers. Marks is quick to tell everyone to calm down, and I think he is right

His point is that the AI only helps with the lead sourcing part. After that comes the legwork, follow up and plenty of rejection before any money arrives. If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it, and anything that sounds too good to be true usually is. Plenty of social media influencers are selling exactly this dream right now

The other items are more practical. Microsoft Teams is getting 12 new features this autumn, including auto hiding the app bar, testing your mic and speakers before a meeting and a way to report suspicious meeting activity. There is also a screenshot tool that lets you grab something during a call and ask Copilot to explain it. HubSpot showed off its Breeze assistant, which uses CRM context to help with tasks, and a self updating CRM that captures details from calls, emails and meetings

Meta's Muse AI agent is apparently flying, with over 2.5 million downloads in its first few weeks and a spell as the top free iOS app in the US ahead of ChatGPT. Zuckerberg is pitching it as something that takes tasks off your plate rather than just answering questions. Whether that sticks once the novelty wears off is another matter. Early download numbers have a habit of fading

The most sobering item is a study by London firm Saturn testing AI chatbots on personal finance questions. Across 17 current models, average accuracy was only 43 percent, and free versions did noticeably worse than paid ones. Even the best performer, Claude Opus 5, got harder questions wrong 67 percent of the time. With an EY survey suggesting almost half of people use AI for financial advice, that is a worrying gap

Marks sums it up nicely with use AI but verify. Has anyone here tried using ChatGPT to find work or leads? Did it turn up anything real, or was it mostly padding?

Small Business Tech News Could One Chatgpt Prompt Help Earn You 100Kwww.forbes.com

[HitmanMatt53]

Used something similar to find freelance writing gigs a few months ago. It produced a tidy list but half the links were dead or the roles had already been filled. The other half needed so much checking that I could have found them myself

Useful as a starting point, nothing more. The $100k figure is pure clickbait

[Brandon_62]

Testing your mic before joining is long overdue on Teams. Half of every call I join starts with someone saying they cannot hear anyone

Being able to hide the app bar is a nice touch too. Small quality of life changes like that matter more than flashy AI additions

[DudleyBoy]

Anyone using HubSpot here? The self updating CRM sounds brilliant if it works, because keeping records current is the part every sales team hates. I worry about it logging things from calls that should not end up in a shared system though

[Emma29]

Interesting that Claude Opus 5 came out top but still struggled on the hard questions. It suggests none of these models are ready for anything beyond basic money explainers. Tax rules and pensions vary so much by country that a general model is always going to guess. A proper adviser still earns their fee

[John70]

Fair play to Marks for adding the word help and then admitting it in the article. Most roundups would run with the headline and leave it there. Lead generation is the dull, time consuming bit of freelancing, so automating even part of it has value. Converting those leads is still on you

[BlackMamba]

Paid models failing 49 percent of the tests versus 63 percent for free ones is a telling split. People on free tiers are the least likely to pay for a financial adviser either. So the ones most reliant on AI answers are getting the worst ones

That is a problem the industry needs to address. Clear warnings on money topics would be a start. Better still would be pointing people towards proper sources

[Grim Socket]

Every AI app should have that finance study pinned to its front page. Being wrong more than half the time on money questions is not a small flaw

[Dank15]

Marks saying most people use a fraction of Teams features is spot on. Our office pays for the full Microsoft suite and barely touches anything beyond Outlook and calls

[HitmanMatt53]

Muse topping the App Store is not surprising given Meta can promote it across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They have billions of users to funnel towards it. The question is retention after a month or two. Plenty of apps top the charts at launch and then vanish. I would want to see usage numbers before calling it a ChatGPT rival