I Tried The Lazy Way To Make Money With AI In 2026 Here's The Truth — Transcript

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1. 0:00There are hundreds, maybe even thousands
2. 0:02of videos on YouTube right now talking
3. 0:03about the laziest way to make money with
4. 0:05AI. And they all kind of go something
5. 0:07like this. All you got to do is copy a
6. 0:09prompt in and paste it into chatbt or
7. 0:13whatever you want to do and all of a
8. 0:15sudden a completed video or script is
9. 0:18going to be printed out for you to just
10. 0:20directly implement and you're going to
11. 0:22make $500 a day. It basically those are
12. 0:25all of the videos. There are a number of
13. 0:27problems with those videos that we're
14. 0:30going to talk about in this video and
15. 0:32what you should do instead. Now, I
16. 0:34personally have been using AI in various
17. 0:37ways for I don't know maybe five or 6
18. 0:39years now. I was one of those people
19. 0:41that has an AIdriven YouTube channel
20. 0:45about painting. I followed all the
21. 0:47guru's advice. Uh I got the prompts. I
22. 0:51used Hey Jen, which is a um which is an
23. 0:55AI avatar software. It takes your voice
24. 0:57and it takes your face and it creates um
25. 1:00um videos based off of script and then I
26. 1:03would then take I would use CHBT to
27. 1:06create images
28. 1:08for my painting videos. Now those videos
29. 1:10have some of them have done very well.
30. 1:13Um it's called Pallet Perfect if you
31. 1:14want to look it up yourself. The videos
32. 1:16are still up today, but I can tell you
33. 1:19for a fact it is not lazy. It is not
34. 1:22easy. The process itself is really
35. 1:24simple, but there's a lot of steps that
36. 1:26you've got to get right in order to find
37. 1:28the lazy way. And you got to keep
38. 1:30finding different and new and better
39. 1:33ways to keep the lazy uh thing going.
40. 1:36So, let's go ahead and talk about all of
41. 1:38the problems with the laziest way to
42. 1:39make money according to these gurus.
43. 1:41Again, let's just say uh copy and paste
44. 1:44a prompt. First of all, you have to
45. 1:46spend a decent amount of time figuring
46. 1:49out the best prompts to create. You
47. 1:52don't you you can't just start off with,
48. 1:53"Write me a 10-minute script about how
49. 1:56to make money online." You have to do a
50. 1:58lot of trial and error. You're going to
51. 2:00spend a lot of time upfront trying to
52. 2:02figure out which prompts are the best.
53. 2:05Now again, this was maybe four or five
54. 2:07years ago at this point, maybe five or
55. 2:08six. But
56. 2:11the uh LM LL LLM models, learning
57. 2:15language models, they weren't as
58. 2:17advanced or as sophisticated as they are
59. 2:19today, but you still had to figure out
60. 2:22exactly what to say. Um, I know that
61. 2:24when I first got started, you couldn't
62. 2:26ask for a full 10-minute script because
63. 2:28about a minute and a half into it, it
64. 2:29would start to um it would start to just
65. 2:32kind of drift and you would have to
66. 2:34bring it back. And so, what I had to do
67. 2:36is I had to write a script for the intro
68. 2:38or a prompt for the intro and then I had
69. 2:40to write a prompt for the individual
70. 2:42sections of that video, which again
71. 2:45takes a significant amount of time to
72. 2:47learn if you're just getting started.
73. 2:49It's not something that you're going to
74. 2:50be able to get done overnight. In
75. 2:52addition, you have to go out and spend
76. 2:54time and do the research. You've got to
77. 2:55figure out what videos to make. You
78. 2:57can't just sit down one day and say,
79. 2:59"I'm going to make videos." Now, again,
80. 3:01AI can help you, but this is far from
81. 3:03lazy. In the very beginning, you are
82. 3:05going to spend probably 10 hours a week
83. 3:10trying to get your lazy method set up,
84. 3:12trying to figure out the exact prompts
85. 3:13that you can use, trying to figure out
86. 3:16and do a little bit of research to
87. 3:18figure out what's going on in your
88. 3:19niche, what people are actually
89. 3:21responding to. You're going to spend
90. 3:22time trying to figure out the thumbnails
91. 3:24and the thumbnail prompts. Now again,
92. 3:26the learning language models have gotten
93. 3:28better and smarter, but it's not just a
94. 3:31snap of your fingers, $500 a day falls
95. 3:34out of the sky and into your lap. The
96. 3:36other bigger issue, I think, is that
97. 3:39when you rely on these platforms, you're
98. 3:41getting paid by YouTube, you're getting
99. 3:42paid by Tik Tok and Facebook and
100. 3:44Instagram, you are a you're leaving a
101. 3:46lot of money on the table, b you're
102. 3:48putting your hands and your fate into
103. 3:50something that you have absolutely no
104. 3:52control over. If you've been around the
105. 3:54content creation game for a while, you
106. 3:56can see the playbook being written. You
107. 3:58can see the formula and the blueprint
108. 4:00that all of these platforms follow. Tik
109. 4:02Tok just did it. What normally happens,
110. 4:04and this happened with Pinterest a few
111. 4:05years ago, what normally happens is a
112. 4:08platform will try and get a bunch of
113. 4:10eyeballs because they know that they
114. 4:11make their money from ads, right? They
115. 4:13make their money from companies like
116. 4:15Disney and Best Buy playing displaying
117. 4:18ads on their platform. And so what they
118. 4:20promise to do is they promise to pay
119. 4:22people a bunch of money. They promise to
120. 4:24pay regular creators and make them rich
121. 4:26beyond their wildest belief. And that
122. 4:28drives a bunch of eyeballs to the
123. 4:30platform. And then once they get a bunch
124. 4:33of eyeballs to the platform, they may
125. 4:34make a few people rich. They they may
126. 4:36may not. They may not. Uh once they get
127. 4:38a bunch of eyeballs on the platform,
128. 4:40they slowly reduce the amount of
129. 4:42payouts. We just saw this with Tik Tok a
130. 4:45few years ago. Pinterest had its own
131. 4:46platform. They stopped paying people
132. 4:48entirely. Facebook recently cut back on
133. 4:50the amount of money that they're paying
134. 4:52people. You can go on these different
135. 4:53platforms and see that people are
136. 4:55complaining about how they were making
137. 4:57$10,000 a month and now they're making$1
138. 5:00or $2,000 and they may have quit their
139. 5:02job or, you know, they've put all their
140. 5:04eggs in this content creation basket.
141. 5:07Relying on a platform to pay you is
142. 5:09incredibly risky because you have
143. 5:11absolutely no control. You don't have
144. 5:13control over the number of views that
145. 5:15you're going to get every day. You don't
146. 5:17have any control over what your payouts
147. 5:18are going to be, your CPMs, your RPMs,
148. 5:20the amount of money that the platforms
149. 5:22are going to pay you. You don't really
150. 5:24have any control over what you can
151. 5:26monetize. For example, this video
152. 5:28[clears throat]
153. 5:29over on YouTube probably wouldn't get
154. 5:31monetized because I talk about money.
155. 5:34Whereas on Tik Tok, it might get
156. 5:36monetized, but I I would only make like
157. 5:38a $1 or $2 CPM or RPM. On YouTube, you
158. 5:42make a significantly more amount of
159. 5:44money. However, you're competing with
160. 5:45long form and shorts and and other
161. 5:47things. So, relying on a platform for
162. 5:50the laziest way, I think is incredibly
163. 5:52risky. I think it's very shortsighted
164. 5:55and people that ultimately rely on this
165. 5:57method uh are going to struggle. Now,
166. 6:00that's not to say that AI video content
167. 6:03creation doesn't work because there is a
168. 6:05home for it. I think there is a market
169. 6:07for it and I think the market is ever
170. 6:09growing. What I do think also though is
171. 6:11people value and crave authenticity
172. 6:13more. So, if you can show up on camera
173. 6:15regardless of what you look like,
174. 6:17regardless of what you sound like, and
175. 6:19you can be honest and transparent, I
176. 6:21think there is a significant group group
177. 6:23of people that want to follow that. Um,
178. 6:25as I mentioned with my pallet perfect
179. 6:27YouTube channel, it was AI video to AI
180. 6:30voice using Hey Gen and then overlay.
181. 6:33So, it was a faceless AI video. I just
182. 6:35had I had B-roll that I had uh
183. 6:38downloaded from Storyblocks, which I
184. 6:40paid a subscription for, and the images
185. 6:43of the different houses were just AI
186. 6:45that I quickly created over on over on
187. 6:49Adobe Photo, Adobe Premiere Pro. The
188. 6:52other thing that you've got to
189. 6:53understand too when it comes to these
190. 6:55different lazy ways is that you're going
191. 6:56to wind up spending a bunch of money
192. 6:58upfront or a bunch of time upfront with
193. 7:01the possibility, the hopefulness that
194. 7:03you're going to make that money back
195. 7:04later. There's no guarantee that you're
196. 7:06going to make the money back if you
197. 7:07don't get monetized by the YouTube
198. 7:09partner program, if you don't get
199. 7:10monetized by the Tik Tok creativity
200. 7:12fund. What I think that all people
201. 7:14should do instead is you should have
202. 7:16alternate forms of monetization. You
203. 7:18should get monetized by affiliate
204. 7:20marketing that's recommending other
205. 7:21people's products and services. For
206. 7:23example, with my pallet perfect YouTube
207. 7:25channel, I've got affiliate links to
208. 7:26paint brushes and um paint rollers and
209. 7:30you know the drop cloths, all the paint
210. 7:32a cruamon that someone would need in
211. 7:34order to paint a house. And the reason
212. 7:36why that's better in my opinion is that
213. 7:38I can monetize from day one. I don't
214. 7:40have to hope and wish that I get
215. 7:42monetized by the YouTube partner program
216. 7:43and then have my eggs all in that one
217. 7:46basket. Another thing that you can do
218. 7:48for the pallet perfect example is you
219. 7:50sell a digital product or sell a
220. 7:52calculator. How much paint do you need,
221. 7:54right? Uh you can sell a a painting
222. 7:57list, an organization list, uh letting
223. 8:00people exactly letting people know
224. 8:02exactly what they need when they go to
225. 8:04paint a house. Now, you might think,
226. 8:05Alustin, people will can just buy that
227. 8:08or they can Google it or they can use
228. 8:10AI. That's true, and some people will do
229. 8:13that. But oftentimes people will buy
230. 8:15from you because they know, like, and
231. 8:17trust you. They know, like, and trust
232. 8:18your information. If people spend time
233. 8:21with you via watching your content, they
234. 8:23say, "I trust this guy. I trust that he
235. 8:26has the best um he he's going to make
236. 8:30the best recommendations for me." It's
237. 8:32that pairocial relationship that um is
238. 8:35both very good and and can be very bad
239. 8:37at times. So, what I would tell you to
240. 8:40do is one, stop trying to be lazy. Often
241. 8:44times people that are lazy
242. 8:47struggle with consistency. They struggle
243. 8:49with cons success, which is um more
244. 8:52important. Being consistent and
245. 8:54persistent is the most important thing
246. 8:56that you're going to have to learn when
247. 8:58it comes to creating YouTube videos.
248. 9:01I can't tell you how many times where I
249. 9:03would rather not make a YouTube video,
250. 9:06whether it's for this channel or whether
251. 9:08it's for my pallet perfect or one of my
252. 9:10other channels. how I would rather just
253. 9:13sit around and do nothing. But at the
254. 9:15end of the day, we know that sitting
255. 9:16around and doing nothing and being lazy
256. 9:19quote unquote [snorts] um will hold you
257. 9:22back both now and in the future because
258. 9:24whatever you do today is going to pay
259. 9:26you off next week, next month, and next
260. 9:29year. So, if you don't make that video
261. 9:30or you try the laziest way to make a
262. 9:33video and it's not successful, one,
263. 9:35you're going to be losing money with um
264. 9:37with with the AI products that you that
265. 9:39you're buying that you're using every
266. 9:41single month. Like, hey Genen, it used
267. 9:43to cost me $99 a month. Uh Adobe
268. 9:46Premiere Pro is a subscription service.
269. 9:48So, what usually happens is you're going
270. 9:50to lose a significant amount of money up
271. 9:52front if you go through these lazy
272. 9:53methods. If you get monetized, which is
273. 9:56no guarantee, um YouTube could reject
274. 9:59you from the the YouTube partner program
275. 10:01because it just doesn't like your
276. 10:02content, you're going to be making
277. 10:03pennies upfront and for a significant
278. 10:06amount of time.
279. 10:09You will need multiple viral videos
280. 10:12every single month in order to make a
281. 10:15successful amount of money.
282. 10:18Again, what I think you should be doing
283. 10:19instead is if you go the affiliate
284. 10:21marketing route, you can create content
285. 10:22on YouTube. You can add in your
286. 10:24affiliate links and start making money.
287. 10:26Another option I think is a slightly
288. 10:28better option is selling digital
289. 10:30products. That way, you sell a digital
290. 10:31product, you have your own customer
291. 10:33base. Then from there, you can sell them
292. 10:36multiple products and services. For the
293. 10:38first thing you sell, you you sell them
294. 10:40that uh calculator or the the DIY
295. 10:42checklist or spreadsheet. And then maybe
296. 10:44the next thing you sell them is a how to
297. 10:47paint a wall course, how to add accent
298. 10:49painting, or you know, how to paint a
299. 10:51bathroom, remodel a bathroom. You sell
300. 10:53them an entire course and you can make
301. 10:55more money from those same customers. I
302. 10:58talked about that a lot in my last video
303. 10:59yesterday. But stop listening to the
304. 11:03gurus that are telling you about the
305. 11:04laziest way to make money with AI
306. 11:05because hell, they know how much time,
307. 11:08energy, and effort it requires to be
308. 11:11successful. Um, you're usually the last
309. 11:13one to find out. Let me know what you
310. 11:15guys think in the comment section. Do
311. 11:16you agree? Do you disagree? How do you
312. 11:17guys feel about these quick hitting
313. 11:19YouTube videos? If you do you want to
314. 11:21see more of them? Do you want to see
315. 11:22less? Let me know. And we'll see you in
316. 11:23the next video.