Wasted $200 on an AI art course that promised too much

I spent $200 on an online course last month that claimed to teach me how to use AI tools to create sellable art fast. After 3 weeks of lessons, I realized it was just basic prompts and no real help finding clients or understanding copyright issues. Has anyone else lost money on these AI art get rich quick schemes?

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emma961d ago

Cannot believe they actually taught people to just spam hashtags as marketing... that's almost insulting honestly.

mark_green3d ago

Did you try getting your money back at all? My buddy Tom dropped $150 on a similar course about "AI art for Etsy profits" and all they taught him was how to type "a cat in a hat digital painting style" into Midjourney. He spent two weeks following along and ended up with these blurry cat pictures that looked nothing like the examples in the ads. The worst part was the "marketing module" just told everyone to spam their art on social media with hashtags. He never made a single sale after a month of trying.

grace_knight192d ago

Tom's story sounds familiar, but I've got to point out something. Those courses usually don't teach you how to actually run a small business, they just show you the flashy AI tool stuff. I've seen a few similar ones and the instructors rarely have real experience selling on Etsy themselves. My neighbor tried a different course about selling printables and the "guru" had zero sales history you could verify. The blurry cat pictures thing is pretty common too because the example images are often heavily edited or generated with settings the course doesn't teach you. So it's not just that the course was bad, it's that the whole setup is designed to make you think you're the problem when really the course is the problem.