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Comment on Tell HN: Stripe closed my GPT-3 G.Sheet addon because they think I “sell essays”

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Stripe might have detected that you are grifting with an AI chatbot and is clearly telling you not to do that on their payment gateway.

Like I said before [0], perhaps it is better to go on multiple gateways. At least then you can continue your hustle / grift on another payment processor rather than complain here and use HN as Stripe customer support.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747526

This is an awful take

Also, they are likely using the OpenAI API which is not a "chatbot", and was built exactly for the purpose of building apps like this

Grift? What is this? Twitter? Stop using such loaded trendy vitriolic language and take this for what it actually is.

Grift?

Yes. Selling AI snake oil is indeed a grift.

It also doesn't surprise me that with the recent hype of AI all over the place, Stripe would be taking extra steps in cracking down on new so-called AI companies and scams selling their snake-oil re-packaged as 'AI' to ride the hype cycle.

This one is just low hanging fruit.

Stop using such loaded trendy vitriolic language and take this for what it actually is.

Exactly. It is actually a 'grift'. Just like the rest of the low effort so-called AI companies sitting on someone else's APIs. It is another plain old confidence trick which is as old as the hills.

There are lots of great use cases for incorporating GPT3 in Google Sheets. It works quite well for cleaning messy data, transforming data, etc etc

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