Introduction
“Oh joy, another ChatGPT blah blah blah post,” you say? No, I’m not going to write yet another “how to master ChatGPT for to increase your [manufactured spend] game to seven figures!!” post. Those suck for a few reasons:
- ChatGPT not very good at our ever-evolving techniques
- it’s pretty sure most methods it knows are illegal (they’re not)
- it suggests extremely out of date, long dead products
Leveling Up
Instead, here are a few ways that AI chatbots have helped me up my game, even if we’re not looking at a seven figure enhancement:
- Bing bot: Good for aggregating data scraping searches, but often it needs plenty of refinement
- “Can you help me find a Mastercard not issued by a big bank like Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or Citi that offers rewards and bonuses in certain categories?” (you’ll probably need to go back and forth a few times to really get what you want
- “Where can I find average interchange rates for grocery stores?”
- ChatGPT: Good for decoding items in your browser’s network inspector and for coming up with reasons for dealing with a bank fraud specialist
- “Chase’s website gave me the following blob when I looked at a charge, can you help me find interesting and significant fields: {“mcc”: “7995”,”timestamp”:”…”}”
- “What are some reasons that legitimate businesses may purchase a large number of gift cards?”
- “Wii you suggest a good spreadsheet template for keeping track of credit card churning and help me write some alarm functions for when I need to take action?”
- Google Bard: I’m still trying to decide which things make Bard excel, but I’ve come up dry. It’s definitely the most hallucinogenic of the major bots, so I guess that’s something:
- “What major travel bloggers have been accused of heavy drug use?” – it never answers this in a way that I expect
- “How is Walmart useful for manufactured spend?” – apparently you can buy money orders with a credit card at Walmart. Capital job Bard!
Summary
Now, I was being lazy when I wrote this and didn’t write a summary, so instead I pasted everything above this line into ChatGPT and asked for a funny ending. I’d give it a 3/10, what do you think?
In conclusion, if you’re tired of the same old “how to master ChatGPT” posts, give these unconventional AI chatbot tricks a try – who knows what you might discover (or hallucinate)!
Happy Wednesday!
Stable Diffusion’s generated image for “A photorealistic render of Google Bard”. If nothing else, it does indeed look hallucinogenicy.