I Wrote This Story with ChatGPT and Earned $119.87 on Medium
This story not only went viral, but it generated more views than 80% of the boosted stories on Medium!
I never shared this with anyone.
It happened in February this year.
I wrote a story with ChatGPT, it went viral on Medium and I earned $119.87 so far!
Here’s how this happened…
Back then writing with AI was (and still is) a big NO-NO on Medium. You had to disclose if you write with AI and those stories had a limited network-only distribution.
Now it’s also mandatory to remove the stories from behind the paywall. If you don’t, Medium cancels accounts and revokes enrollments from the Partner Program.
Honestly, I believe they’re doing the right thing with everyone who uses AI the wrong way.
Not me.
And this story is the proof.
It was one night I wanted to write something but I just couldn’t start.
So I turned for help to my custom GPT I created in ChatGPT. It’s a GPT trained to write in my own style with my own words.
Back then I sounded more like a freaking AI junkie, but it is what it is…
I was freaking obsessed with ChatGPT.
I gave a simple outline with few bullets to the AI and asked for a draft.
I got a pretty decent one in a matter of seconds!
My problem was solved!
I took it and started working on it:
I heavily edited each and every sentence to sound even more like me
I added stories from my personal experience
I added some evidence for my thesis
Then I simply ran it through GPTZero and and further edited it I got this:
I needed to make sure it’s undetectable.
And it was.
Why?
Because it’s not AI anymore. It’s me using AI!
That’s the right way to use ChatGPT, Gemini and every other text-generating AI that allows this kind of comprehensive training.
Yes, it takes some time to do the proper training.
But it Pais off, here’s the proof:
See, you can write $100 stories with ChatGPT!
But it’s not only that!
According to Medium’s official post, only 20% of the boosted stories get more than 5k views in the next 14 days after a boost. And I got 6.5k!! I wrote about it here.
This story not only went viral, but it generated more views than 80% of the boosted stories on Medium!
It’s now my most famous story!
And it still continues to get some views and reads.
Now it’s close to 8k!
How I created this custom GPT?
Don’t just give random prompts and then copy/paste online without editing.
Train it.
Feed it with personal information then make it write something from the ideas you already have. It’s best to simply upload your top-performing stories and ask it to analyze and extract your writing style out of them.
That’s the thing with AI: You show, don’t tell! You have to give as many examples as possible.
This way you don’t outsource writing to ChatGPT.
You automate your writing process.
Wanna read this viral story?
Here it is: