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We should have seen this one coming.
I've seen reports that Facebook and Instagram are putting together AI accounts to "enhance interactions" with their human accounts. These accounts will have bios and profile pictures just like real people! This will raise the number of adverts to eyeballs - at least on paper.
But if it really comes down to it, this trend will increase the number of AIs interacting with AIs. On paper, there will still be more ads 'looked at' but not by real people.
So how soon will social media will become inhabited almost entirely by bots and not people?
Oh wait! The advertisers will soon figure this out (well some of them will) and demand a way of telling the AIs from real people using some kind of code. But this would mean real people will be able to tell too, defeating the whole purpose.
Still, the idea of fake people talking to fake people who will never buy anything being used to push up ad revenue to be amusing.
Wait! Pay the AIs with Bitcoin for interactions! Fake people get fake money while real people manipulate the coins (Insta Coin? Meta Coin? Zuck Bucks?) and cash out! Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Let's pile one scam on top of another!
More popcorn please!
I've seen reports that Facebook and Instagram are putting together AI accounts to "enhance interactions" with their human accounts. These accounts will have bios and profile pictures just like real people! This will raise the number of adverts to eyeballs - at least on paper.
But if it really comes down to it, this trend will increase the number of AIs interacting with AIs. On paper, there will still be more ads 'looked at' but not by real people.
So how soon will social media will become inhabited almost entirely by bots and not people?
Oh wait! The advertisers will soon figure this out (well some of them will) and demand a way of telling the AIs from real people using some kind of code. But this would mean real people will be able to tell too, defeating the whole purpose.
Still, the idea of fake people talking to fake people who will never buy anything being used to push up ad revenue to be amusing.
Wait! Pay the AIs with Bitcoin for interactions! Fake people get fake money while real people manipulate the coins (Insta Coin? Meta Coin? Zuck Bucks?) and cash out! Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Let's pile one scam on top of another!
More popcorn please!
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