ChatGPT Discount Codes: Save on Online Shopping

On Tiktok and Instagram, a new “hack” panics Internet users: asking Chatgpt for discount codes, before placing online. “The AI ​​gives you all the codes that an influencer has already published. Just copy, stick and save. It’s too easy! ”Rejoices a surfer. A test carried out by us confirms this. In a few seconds, the AI ​​offers several codes, some of which are perfectly valid. In the Optician online Mrlens, a code found via Chatgpt made it possible to obtain 20% discount. Same success with the Rigi Bahnen railway company. Other codes, however, did not work.

Vanessa, 33, from Argovie, tested the system when buying clothes for her companion: “The first code offered walked directly. I had 20% discount and saved around 30 francs. ” Since then, she has asked the AI ​​before each purchase, even if she admits to having a little doubt: “Maybe it’s not very legal …”

No worries, explains the influence marketing expert Fabian Plüss: “It’s completely legal. These codes are public, whether they come from influencers, good portals or chatgpt does not change anything. ” And are the traders losers? On the contrary, according to the expert: “The discounts are already integrated into the margins. The more a code circulates, the more it stimulates sales. ” Some advertisers even use an “reverse psychology”: they ask their customers not to share the codes, which makes them even more viral.

At Rigi Bahnen, spokesperson Ivan Steiner confirms: “These discounts help us. Chatgpt also highlights other advantages, such as the fact that children up to 15 years old travel for free or that the half-valid ABO is valid. ” And do content creators risk losing their usefulness? Not really, according to Fabian Plüss: “Brands will continue to pay them, because their primary role is to create attention around a product.”