| ▲ | rdedev 4 hours ago |
| When companies like this exist, what is the point of relying of TPM? Looks like the future is bright for VC backed bots https://doublespeed.ai/ |
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| ▲ | NikolaNovak 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm assuming that's a troll / sarcasm / fake... But that could just be my last vestige of faith in humanity. Edit: aaaand... That's another little sliver of my faith gone : https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/04/how-fake-people... |
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| ▲ | failuser 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? They clearly violate ToS for profit. This is something I expect to find on a dark web forum where 0days are traded, not in public. |
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| ▲ | xmcp123 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This kind of thing has been common for ages. Obviously AI has kicked it into overdrive, but it’s not darkweb kind of stuff. Note that they do not mention any specific companies on that landing page. That is pretty intentional. But realistically going after bots is expensive and rarely successful, so most companies don’t do it. Even if you find the guy, the chances they can be legally reached are pretty low. | |
| ▲ | SlinkyOnStairs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? Because they don't care. It doesn't matter that it's AI slop, it generates views. And Google and Meta can bill advertisers for those views. Zuckerberg is paying people to put AI slop Shrimp Jesus on facebook. (Not directly to platforms like this, but with the incentive structure) Really, they're not just cashing in on the views of AI slop being put in front of boomers. They're cashing both ways; While the low end spam industry is merely guessing and iterating on whatever generates views, the more refined spammer does not leave the performance of their latest slop post up to chance, and just uses good old viewbotting. Viewbotting that these days, is mostly done on real devices. Which show ads, to the bots or underpaid developing world workers. Google and Meta'll still charge you for those impressions though. The losers? People who sincerely try to use these platforms, and whatever idiot businesses are still paying for ads by the impression or click, rather than conversions that immediately generate revenue. | |
| ▲ | chadgpt2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Violating ToS isn't illegal in most cases. Companies just put scary looking clauses in their ToS to discourage you from doing things they don't like. | | |
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| ▲ | tardedmeme 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| These companies would have to buy one phone per fake influencer. |
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| ▲ | dakolli 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why is every startup using that same Serif font now, Garamond or whatever. Is it an LLM design phenomenon? Its kinda ruining that font style for me. Also $1,500 a month for 10 "influencers" is wild. This doesn't seem that sophisticated unless they're doing something special to increase trust scores of accounts. They say they have "in house warming algorithm" which honestly doesn't inspire confidence for me. Whats funny is its almost a certainty (if they are doing things correctly) that they have literal farms of phones (probably in SEA). The only real way to keep trust high is to have a real mobile connection and unique devices. Proxies are okay, but you really need to use the apps on real hardware. |
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| ▲ | tcoff91 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wow that is so dystopian. |
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| ▲ | huflungdung 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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