Seems like a ToS violation more than anything

sandeepkd 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I agree thats more appropriate. There is nothing AI here, its just simple automation. Couple things that are probably applicable in this case or cases like this where royalties are earned based on assumed advertising traffic

1. There is no way he the the only one or first one. Chances are that more than likely he was subscribing to some third party services which were offering this feature.

2. He probably took it too far to get noticed and get in limelight

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vasco 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's illicit enrichment so it's not like just getting likes.

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tptacek 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When you deliberately violate a TOS using deception in order to get money or property from a service, you're committing fraud.

There are plenty of ways to violate a TOS non-remuneratively or without using deception ("deception" is an element of the crime of fraud and has to be proved up in court; it's not simply what the TOS says it is). Those are civil matters, not crime.

The template you want to be working from: lying for money is fraud.

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watwut 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Unless you are facebook, Musk, OpenAI, Antropic, Thiel, ...

	▲	tptacek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That argument won't play at all in front of a judge. I'm commenting positively, not normatively.