An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we:

1. can all tell

2. will not use your product

Please stop polluting the global commons

Signed everyone <3

This seems to be happening everywhere there is a user community (potential customers), such as LinkedIn and Twitter.

Many times, I’ve been “surprised” to find that, within a span of few hours, many people on LinkedIn/Twitter share similar anecdotes, punchlines, realizations, and everything in between. Of course, they all end with asking to say the MAGIC word(s) to reward the “selected few” in their DMs.

Gone are the days when we used to just give things out - here is the link to the zip file, download and do whatever you want.

Go ahead, “Say friend and enter.”

Edit/Update: About that “Tell”, honestly, I think a lot too many have no clue.

I don't condone it but the best marketing I've ever seen and which gets to the top of Reddit every week is a company that runs a paid IQ test website. They post some type of outrage bait and it always gets traction. Practically nobody in the comments can tell; they're all focused on how some imaginary character in an image is boasting about an IQ score of 99.

>> can all tell

the reality is most users can't tell. you can see it under every ai post on reddit, unless it is creaming ai in every word.