I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4

https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1652387444904583169

by bfoks • 3 years ago

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sunshadow• 3 years ago

I wonder how much money he spent on GPT-4 for doing all this

jacooper• 3 years ago

Lol, imagine GPT-4 telling him its a waste of money to use the API and that he should do it on his own.

majikaja• 3 years ago

Money and time

aszantu2• 3 years ago

I'm not comfortable handing all my personal and financial stuff over to another business

BlackjackCF• 3 years ago

Some people don’t even share all their personal/financial stuff with a spouse!

It’s kinda wild to me that people are willing to do this and announce it publicly. I know it’s not the same thing, but wouldn’t you be concerned about a company’s opsec after it went public that they were accidentally leaking people’s chat convos?

aszantu2• 3 years ago

kind of, yes

0x532• 3 years ago

Do people really have that many subscriptions that they do not notice? I have seen a number of products advertising this ability to "find" monthly subscription. Is this a helpful thing, do people have so many transactions that they can't find a subscription?

kevinmchugh• 3 years ago

I could imagine the value is in cancellation, which I guess is non trivial for many services in jurisdictions that don't mandate subscriptions be cancelable the same place they're creatable.

Illinois and California should do a subscription cancellation tourism campaign. "Come to Chicago, it's easy to cancel Netflix here!"

WheelsAtLarge• 3 years ago

I had a useless subscription that festered for over a year. Everytime I thought about it I felt that I should keep it since I might need it. Looking back I did not need it. It was a waste of money. I suspect many people are in the same situation. They know about the subscription but can't commit to canceling it. It's much easier when it's done automatically.

0x532• 3 years ago

Ok, that makes sense. I see the value in it cancelling it for you.

prepend• 3 years ago

I’ve wondered this too. Are there people who don’t look at their bank statements?

I look every month, there’s only 30-50 transactions and if I don’t recognize any, I look into it.

If people have unknown subscriptions then that’s likely a signal of larger financial problems. It’s good that this issue is helped, but likely they need some education and it’s probably dangerous for them to trust any third party with their finances.

DontchaKnowit• 3 years ago

I barely ever do. Its annoying

tennisflyi• 3 years ago

Are there people who don’t look at their bank statements?

Most assuredly.

powera• 3 years ago

An attention-hound (note the old tweets submitted) does something stupid for attention. Film at eleven.

metadat• 3 years ago

Discussed yesterday:

I cloned myself with AI, and she fooled my bank and my family

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35739906 (66 comments)

And submitted previously today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755921 (No interesting comments)

Edit: @mwnivek, thank you. My bad.

mwnivek• 3 years ago

These links have similar themes, but they are not about the same person/story as this post.

absoluteunit1• 3 years ago

I read this with a grain of salt after seeing the first line in the tweet:

"via the @donotpay chat we are building)."

There is definitely potential to this and I am looking forward to seeing the progress on this but this is just promoting your product in its early stages. Would be interesting to see more use cases and experiences down the line

readthenotes1• 3 years ago

And privacy promises

nichohel• 3 years ago

Listen to episode 157 of the excellent podcast "Blocked and Reported" before you think this is real.

daydream• 3 years ago

Oh my. Yes, there is more than meets the eye here.

0xbadc0de5• 3 years ago

First rule of personal finance: Nobody cares more about your money than you do.

Second (corollary) rule of personal finance: Most financial advice you receive will not be optimised for your situation or be in your best interest.

Tertiary (adjunct) rule: Financial institutions generate income by turning as much of /your/ money into /their/ money as possible.

hgsgm• 3 years ago

This is an ad.

satisfice• 3 years ago

Can I use ChatGPT to delete all people and articles that appear on my screen on the subject of “I foolishly did X with AI because I am baby man who doesn’t understand responsible behavior”?

If I could use it for that, I still would not use it for that.

flangola7• 3 years ago

baby man

Resorting to cheap personal insults is both unneeded and inappropriate for HN.

If you have a point to make, make it.

BigCryo• 3 years ago

Famous last words

ddmma• 3 years ago

That might be interesting usecase for banking applications feature. Another thing is profiling your behaviour based on your transactions history, terrible choice while optimising own processes without considering privacy. But why not!

I decided to outsource my entire personal financial life to GPT-4

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