AI is the new internet. Just as the internet fundamentally reshaped daily life and permeated nearly every industry, AI is now revolutionizing how we work, learn, create, and interact. It’s rapidly transforming every sector, from healthcare and finance to manufacturing and marketing. If you haven’t implemented AI in your daily life and, most importantly, in your business, you’re already falling behind.
Whether you’re looking to supplement your current income or completely pivot your career, artificial intelligence offers unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurs and side hustlers. In this comprehensive guide, I’ll walk you through 13 ways to make money with AI and help get you started today!
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AI Is Only A Tool
Before reading further, there’s something you should understand. AI is simply a tool, no different than the internet itself.
The internet allowed you to build websites, launch blogs, or create online stores and do all the amazing things that we never thought could be possible a few decades ago, but using these tools doesn’t guarantee wealth.
Every fundamental business principle still applies: you must provide real value and operate with a sound strategy, and the same goes with AI.
AI enables you to do something you wouldn’t be able to do before, such as delivering hyper-personalized experiences, providing instant 24/7 support, or generating vast amounts of content at scale, but it can’t replace the skills, creativity, and hard work you need for success.
15 Ways to Make Money With AI in 2025
1. AI in content creation
The content creation space has expanded significantly since tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Jasper gained mainstream popularity. AI has continued to evolve and is no longer just about pumping out generic and robotic content. With the correct prompt, you will be able to change the tone and voice, adapt the style, and request AI to customize the content to match your exact requirements.
I use Claude as my research assistant, idea generator, and draft creator. It provides me with blog post ideas, novel insights, and concepts that I have never heard of, which prompts me to perform further research.
Furthermore, you can use AI to create your personal frameworks for different content types, then customize them when needed. This will help you deliver faster results while maintaining quality and consistency. Essentially, you become an editor instead of a writer.
By harnessing AI’s generative capabilities, you can start a blog and make money through affiliate marketing and ad revenue. What might typically take you a few days to write a comprehensive blog post manually can now be accomplished in just 1-2 days with AI assistance.
However, creating and posting AI-generated blog posts without adding a personal touch, expertise, and voice should not be done. Additionally, AI makes mistakes. My experience with AI is that much of the data it provides can be incorrect or outdated. Therefore, always verify information from credible sources.
2. Freelance content writing with AI
If you don’t want to start a blog, you can offer content writing services on platforms such as Fiverr or Upwork. The upside of providing content writing services is that you can begin generating income almost immediately, unlike building a blog, which takes time to monetize.
The full scope of content writing services you can provide is not limited to blog posts. You can offer website copy, helping businesses create email marketing content, ad copy, and more.
The secret to delivering consistent quality fast, again, is that you should create different prompts for different content types and a framework to streamline your content creation process.
3. AI-powered ecommerce solutions
You can heavily utilize AI in ecommerce and start an ecommerce business as a solopreneur. Before AI emerged, writing unique product descriptions for different products could take hours. However, with AI NLP (natural language processing) capabilities, you can write captivating and detailed product descriptions within minutes.
Product descriptions are just the tip of the iceberg of AI’s vast potential in ecommerce. AI-powered inventory management and even dynamic pricing strategies are all examples of AI’s diverse applications in e-commerce. These AI implementations can significantly reduce your expenses, increase efficiency, and boost productivity.
The beauty of AI e-commerce solutions is the scalability. Once you build a system or process, you can replicate it with minimal additional effort. For example, you can create templates and workflows for everything —essentially, the detailed prompts you give to AI, and AI can then easily transform these into something unique, from product descriptions and personalized customer service responses to dynamic email marketing campaigns.
4. AI-generated digital products
Creating digital products with AI can open up a completely new revenue stream that you never expected. I never expected it. You can create digital products such as ebooks, templates, and printables and sell them on platforms like Etsy or Amazon, or help you create lead magnets that can be used in building an email list.
With AI-generated digital products, everyone can create them. The key to creating successful AI-generated digital products is to differentiate them through your unique perspectives, experience, creativity, or how you organize information in a way that saves people time and provides value. AI can help you research, outline, and even draft content, but your expertise and curation make it valuable.
5. Sell AI-generated designs and art
Creating a design was a time-consuming process before AI existed. Designers and artists could spend hours finding inspiration and days creating a piece of design or art. But with AI, hundreds of unique designs can be created within hours.
Mastering prompt engineering was crucial for designs and image generation when the AI image generator first became available. However, many AI image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, now have reverse prompt features that generate a prompt from an existing image. You can use the prompt to generate images and designs with a similar style and refine them from there to create your unique designs and art.
You can start a print-on-demand business with these AI-generated designs or create stickers and wall art designs and sell them on marketplaces. Photostock websites like Adobe Stock and Shutterstock also start to accept AI-generated images and photos, which gives you the opportunity to sell your AI-generated art and generate passive income.
6. Provide graphic design services with AI
Instead of selling designs on marketplaces or a photo stock website, which might not result in any sales due to intense competition, offering creative services may be a better alternative. Even if you are not a graphic designer, you can create professional-quality designs for clients with AI tools.
This includes helping businesses establish their brand identity by creating logos and business cards. Use AI image generators and design tools to create multiple logo concepts quickly, then refine the best options based on client feedback. You can also extend your services to social media graphics, marketing materials, packaging, and product visuals.
7. Leveraging AI in investment
I’ll be honest—this area made me nervous at first. The idea of letting AI make financial decisions felt risky and, frankly, a bit scary. But AI can certainly be a great assistance in trading and investment.
Leveraging AI in investment, such as using robo-advisors like Betterment and Wealthfront, has several benefits. One is that it reduces the time you need to invest in managing your assets. By defining your investment goals, risks, and duration, robo-advisors trade on your behalf to rebalance your portfolio and keep it aligned with your objectives.
Another key benefit of using robo-advisors is that they eliminate emotions from the investment decision-making process. When your stocks go down, you might panic and sell them without assessing the situation or conducting further research. The downturn may be just a temporary market fluctuation, but your irrational decision can result in a great loss. Utilizing AI ensures your portfolio remains disciplined through such volatility.
8. Video creation with AI for businesses
Video content creation is a time-consuming process even for experienced content creators. However, AI can facilitate this lengthy process, bridge your skill gaps, and help you create consistent and high-quality videos.
You can create AI-generated videos using Canva AI Video Generator or HeyGen to create realistic talking avatars for different platforms such as TikTok and YouTube and make money through the TikTok Creator Reward Program or ad revenue.
Depending on the type of video content you wish to create, voice-over or narration may be necessary. While some AI video generators have voice generation features, others don’t. In this case, you can use free tools like Canva AI Voice Generator or ElevenLabs to generate voice-overs for your videos.
Furthermore, you can offer short-form video creation services for local businesses. Many small businesses lack the skills, time, and resources to create engaging and high-quality video content, and you can provide what they need with minimal time investment by using AI.
When offering video creation services for businesses, make sure that you clearly communicate that AI tools are utilized in the creation process.
9. Monetize AI-generated music
Audio content creation opened up when AI music generation became accessible to non-musicians. You can now create background music, podcast intros, sound effects, and even music tracks.
Popular AI tools, such as ElevenLabs (for voice generation) and Suno AI (for music creation), empower you to produce diverse audio content that can be sold commercially, uploaded to platforms like YouTube to earn ad revenue, or streamed on music streaming apps such as Spotify to earn royalties.
You must read and comply with the specific AI tool’s terms of service before creating and selling AI-generated music. For example, you own the copyright to your music on Suno AI only if you are a paid subscriber.
One other important thing to be careful about when creating music or soundtracks with AI tools is copyright infringement. I want to emphasize again that AI is a tool; you should use AI to create something unique that you can rightfully claim as your own, not slightly different versions of others’ music tracks.
10. Create animations with AI
Creating animations is no longer exclusive to professional animators. AI has made it possible for you to create various animations and animated short films that can generate income, such as by participating in AI film festivals, building a YouTube channel, or licensing your creations.
AI tools such as Invideo AI and Adobe Express allow you to create cartoon or realistic animations that can be monetized. One niche you can target is songs or educational videos for kids. Alphablocks, an educational YouTube channel for kids, has more than 3 million subscribers on YouTube, and each video on the channel receives over 100,000 views.
If you are passionate about creating stunning animated short films, as we have discussed, fully AI-generated animation with minimal intervention is one option. However, you can also shoot your own scenes and use AI to turn your videos into animation.
There are many AI animation tools that can turn your videos into animations on the market at the moment, but most of them are basic. However, recently, Luma AI has launched a new feature called “modify video” that turns your videos into cinematic-grade animations. It goes beyond just animating your videos; it can also change the scene environments, change outfits, add effects, and modify props.
Watch this video released by Luma AI to get a look at its capabilities.
11. AI-Enhanced online education
You may be a guru in a particular field, but don’t know how to create professionally structured and effective online courses. This content creation process can be overwhelming for beginners, but AI has changed everything.
Just like how you can use generative AI like Claude and Gemini to create blog posts, you can use them to help you outline courses, generate quiz questions, create supporting materials, and even script video content.
This provides huge opportunities for those who don’t have a team to create high-quality online courses with reduced investment in time. And by combining with AI tools like HeyGen, you can reduce the expenses of purchasing professional equipment and eliminate the hours traditionally needed to record videos.
12. Build and sell AI-powered apps
If you know how to code, you can create your own AI and sell it for profit. If you don’t, however, you can still build and sell AI-powered apps with no-code AI platforms.
AI platforms like Bubble let you connect to AI like ChatGPT to help you create different types of web applications without having to write a single line of code. For instance, marketplaces, online teaching platforms, SaaS products, and even AI chatbots!
This ease of entry makes the already competitive space even more competitive. People who have brilliant ideas were not able to turn them into reality before, but now everything is possible. You have to solve specific, painful problems for defined audiences and identify market gaps.
13. Build and sell websites generated with AI
Building websites has never been easier since website builders implement AI directly into their platforms to help users create sites effortlessly.
AI website builders like Wix and Hostinger help you create distinctive and personalized websites by intelligently guiding you through the initial design choices. You just have to answer a few questions, and in a matter of a couple of minutes, a unique website tailored to your needs is created.
Some coding skills may be required if you desire something special for your websites, such as creating a basic investment calculator or a mini game on your website. But it’s not the end of the world if you can’t. Because Canva has recently introduced their AI code generator, “Code for Me,” feature allows you to enter a prompt and request Canva to generate functional codes and integrate them into your websites.
This makes selling websites possible, even with little to no coding knowledge. You can help local and small businesses to set up a basic website as a side hustle.
Conclusion
Making money with AI isn’t just a trend—it’s a fundamental shift in how successful businesses are created. There are infinite numbers of ways you can make money with AI, and the possibilities will only continue to expand.
Stop waiting and start making money with one of the methods we recommend today!
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