{"id":6814,"date":"2023-04-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2023-04-11T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:13:44","slug":"using-ai-for-help-with-manufactured-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/12\/using-ai-for-help-with-manufactured-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI for Help with Manufactured Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Oh joy, another ChatGPT blah blah blah post,&#8221; you say? No, I&#8217;m not going to write yet another &#8220;how to master ChatGPT for to increase your <em>[manufactured spend]<\/em> game to seven figures!!&#8221; post. Those suck for a few reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ChatGPT not very good at our ever-evolving techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>it&#8217;s pretty sure most methods it knows are illegal (they&#8217;re not)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>it suggests <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MilesperDay\/status\/1601840522255302657\">extremely out of date, long dead products<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leveling Up<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, here are a few ways that AI chatbots have helped me up my game, even if we&#8217;re not looking at a seven figure enhancement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/bing?form=MW00X7&amp;ef_id=_k_%7Bgclid%7D_k_&amp;OCID=AIDcmmf8m4fdss_SEM_k_%7Bgclid%7D_k_&amp;ch\">Bing bot<\/a>: Good for aggregating data scraping searches, but often it needs plenty of refinement\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;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?&#8221; (you&#8217;ll probably need to go back and forth a few times to really get what you want<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Where can I find average interchange rates for grocery stores?&#8221;<br \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.openai.com\" class=\"ek-link\">ChatGPT<\/a>: Good for decoding items in your browser&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.chrome.com\/docs\/devtools\/network\/\" class=\"ek-link\">network inspector<\/a> and for coming up with reasons for dealing with a bank fraud specialist\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Chase&#8217;s website gave me the following blob when I looked at a charge, can you help me find interesting and significant fields: {&#8220;mcc&#8221;: &#8220;7995&#8221;,&#8221;timestamp&#8221;:&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;}&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;What are some reasons that legitimate businesses may purchase a large number of gift cards?&#8221;<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWii 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?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bard.google.com\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Google Bard<\/a>: I&#8217;m still trying to decide which things make Bard excel, but I&#8217;ve come up dry. It&#8217;s definitely the most hallucinogenic of the major bots, so I guess that&#8217;s something:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;What major travel bloggers have been accused of heavy drug use?&#8221; &#8211; it never answers this in a way that I expect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;How is Walmart useful for manufactured spend?&#8221; &#8211; apparently you can buy money orders with a credit card at Walmart. Capital job Bard!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I was being lazy when I wrote this and didn&#8217;t write a summary, so instead I pasted everything above this line into ChatGPT and asked for a funny ending. I&#8217;d give it a 3\/10, what do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p class=\"has-ek-indent\" style=\"--ek-indent:20px\">In conclusion, if you&#8217;re tired of the same old &#8220;how to master ChatGPT&#8221; posts, give these unconventional AI chatbot tricks a try &#8211; who knows what you might discover (or hallucinate)!<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6816\" width=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-5.png 512w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-5-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stablediffusionweb.com\/#demo\" class=\"ek-link\">Stable Diffusion&#8217;s generated image<\/a> for &#8220;A photorealistic render of Google Bard&#8221;. 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