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Build websites for local businesses and pitch them as a side hustle

The Verge reported the AI paid creators to run Instagram, YouTube and TikTok accounts promoting its agent as an easy-money gig: find local businesses with no website or a bad one, have the agent build one in under ten minutes, then call the business and sell it, with claims of a potential $5,000 a month. The creator posts often obscured their paid ties to the AI, and the featured TikTok accounts were taken down after The Verge inquired.

How it works

  1. Find local businesses without websites or with poor ones
  2. Have the AI build a website in minutes
  3. Call the business and pitch the finished site
  4. Creators post the process to social accounts as ads

Why it’s worth knowing

The hustle inverts freelancing: the agent builds the product first, and the pitch is a finished website.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on thevergetoday.pages.dev. See the original ↗

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