How to Use AI to Create a Monetized Newsletter
Warning: It ain’t pretty!
Today someone left a comment on an old Substack post of mine. I clicked through to learn more about the commenter and fell into a wormhole of weirdness, which led me to a disturbing place.
The comment was inflammatory, radical, victim-centric nonsense, and completely unrelated to my post. At first, I was outraged, until I realised the commenter was not a person. The commenter was a bot.
And this bot wasn’t just commenting on newsletters. This bot was writing an entire newsletter of its own: posts, images, comments, About pages….. the whole box and dice. Wow.
It made me realise that I am working WAY too hard on my newsletter.
Why build a newsletter with AI tech?
Imagine if you asked AI to search the internet and find a list of ways to earn money online. One of the methods on the list — a method that is increasingly popular—is to make a newsletter and ask people to pay you.
You can make decent money with an email newsletter, I know because I do. But setting up a newsletter takes time and effort. You need to create a name for it, logos and pictures, and written content, what a drag! To monetise it you need to connect to a payment method. And then you…
