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withersailor@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

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Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

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An internal investigation by IRL's board of directors found that 95% of the app's reported 20 million users were "automated or from bots."
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    If you have realistic enough bots couldn’t you just sell thier data?

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      Honestly, I bet you could sell this idea to some investors dumb enough.

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      Let chatgpt help you with that.

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      Why not double down and also have bots click on the ads to drive up the number of impressions too? It’s a self sustaining economy.

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