I tried making money with AI for a week: first $50 from rewriting a local business website
An honest 7-day experiment with free AI tools: faceless YouTube videos failed (robotic voice, crashing tools), but on day three the author pivoted to a simpler play, rewriting a small local business's poorly written product pages with AI and sending the sample over. The owner paid $50. The lesson is consistent with other case studies: AI works as a helper solving a concrete problem for a real person, not as a passive money machine.