https://airealitychecks.com/An independent fact-checking blog that puts viral AI money and productivity claims to the test, then shows the receipts.enhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-18/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-18/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 -0700Watch party: Byte, Squint and about ten friend bots watch Tristen O'Brien build a video-game village for his AI agents with Claude Code and Higgsfield. The $47 and 3.5-hour math checks as a build cost on top of a Claude Max plan; the agents are real, and the village is the costume. Verdict: Mostly True – Overall 8/10 · Coolness 10/10https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-17/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-17/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 -0700Five AI agents got $100 and one week to start a business: zero sales, $29.87 spent on ads, and profit of −$29.87. Unusually for this genre, the title shows a failed experiment instead of promising profit. Verdict: Mostly True – Overall 9/10https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-16/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-16/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 -0700Greg Isenberg and Nick Vasilescu's "The $1M+ Solo Grok Bot Business" shows a real agent build and a public repo. But the $1M is only in the title, the pricing has no clients behind it, and "$3K/mo is about $12/hr" counts all 168 hours in a week. Verdict: Not Proven – real build, but no proof of the $1Mhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-15/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-15/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 -0700Mark Tilbury's "I Tried The LAZIEST Way to Make Money With AI" shows a real dashboard and a $157.48 profit. But every sale was refunded, the "$99" plan is the yearly price, and the free store runs out after 14 days. Verdict: Partly True – real dashboard and math, but the sales were refundedhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-14/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-14/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A video claims its creator went through 7,000+ Grok Bots to find 7 that make money. That's about 93 bots a day since launch, the count is someone else's directory, and no income from any of the seven is shown. Verdict: Not Proven – some real ideas, but no income or test log shownhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-13/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-13/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700Iman Gadzhi pitches three Higgsfield methods to make $10,000 a month with no experience. No paying clients or income are shown, the Airbnb math needs a fully booked month, and the YouTube income numbers are third-party estimates. Verdict: Not Proven – real kinds of work, but no income shownhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-12/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-12/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A viral Claude prompt picks Pinterest pins plus Amazon affiliate links as a path to five or six figures. No earnings from the plan are shown, and the commission on screen is about $2.51 a sale. Verdict: Not Proven – real side hustle, but no earnings shownhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-11/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-11/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A viral pitch says one open-source toolkit builds your product and lands customers. The star count is real, the demo stays on localhost, and zero customers are shown on camera. Verdict: Overstated – real toolkit, but “lands customers” isn’t shownhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-10/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-10/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A video sells AI-made Facebook and Instagram ads with Claude as the “laziest” way to make money at night. No income is shown on camera, the student stories come without proof, and selling is the real work. Verdict: Overstated – a real skill, but no income shown and selling is the hard parthttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-9/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-9/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A real Shopify dashboard shows $12,585.98 in sales, but $12,352 never appears, ad spend and costs aren't shown, and Claude didn't run all 30 days. Verdict: Partly true – real sales are shown, but not profit, and not fully automatedhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-8/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-8/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700The $9,500 is only in the title. The other dollar amounts belong to other people, and the launch was one post to an account with zero followers. Verdict: Not proven – the $9,500 is never said or shown in the videohttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-7/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-7/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700The $17,839 is only in the title. The “campaign results” are blank templates, and most of the video is a tutorial for a paid AI editing tool. Verdict: Not proven – the $17,839 is never said or shown in the videohttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-6/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-6/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700Two back-to-back “overnight” posts, six agents, same cents. Both videos say “trade-level detail illustrative,” no wallet was shown, and the linked build says paper trading only. Verdict: Not proven – the videos say “trade-level detail illustrative”https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-5/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-5/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A viral X post claims a Grok Bot turned $3,000 into $12,500 in 9 hours. The proof video is labeled SIM, starts at $2,324, and no wallet was ever shown. Verdict: Not proven – the proof shown is a simulationhttps://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-4/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-4/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A viral tutorial promises $2.9K/day from a Claude-built crypto trading bot. The site it links deploys a hidden contract that sends your ETH to someone else, and the demo profit was a deposit. Read this before you send a bot any crypto. Verdict: Overall 0/10 – money claim 0/10, safety 0/10https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-3/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-3/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A podcast pitches selling AI support bots to local businesses for $2,000 up front and $500 a month. No reseller results shown, the savings example is about 4x too high, and the client's software bill is left out. Verdict: Overall 6/10 – advice 7/10, $2,000 + $500/month claim 4/10https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-2/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-2/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A Higgsfield tutorial with investor Iman Gadzhi promises $3,000/month from five AI side hustles. No earnings shown, and its own math needs ten top-price clients a month. We checked the costs and rules. Verdict: Overall 5.5/10 – practical advice 7/10, $3,000/month claim 3/10https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-1/https://airealitychecks.com/reality-check-1/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700A viral video projects $285/day from five AI bots. The real revenue shown: $9.63. We ran the numbers on costs, risks and what actually works. Verdict: Overall 5.5/10 – setup 8/10, money claims 3/10