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Startup IDEA: AI Chat bots promoting goods being a friend

3 pointsby askmanyover 1 year ago
The idea is to a create a network of chatbots acting as real people on various social media platforms.So this network of bots would be chatting&#x2F;conversing with various people online and will eventually become their virtual friends.<p>So now for example a company approaches our startup to promote say mobile phones ,we will use this network of bots to create an artificial word of mouth thus giving sales a boast.<p>This network of bots could also create a community which could be used to create fake FOMO and promote brand. For example a community created contains 90% our bots and 10% real members so with these bots web can create a trend in the community and introduce FOMO in the community to expand sales.

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lawlessoneover 1 year ago
oh my, i have nothing to say but going to sit here for the comments.<p>edit: actually I can&#x27;t sit it out. To some extent what you are suggesting is probably already what companies will do.<p>Saying that your version is just a tad more unethical and has probably already been done for years with AI chatbots before LLMS.
al2o3crover 1 year ago
Or you could just, y&#x27;know, NOT make the world a worse place for no reason.<p>Be aware that beyond being spammy garbage behavior, this kind of thing is also literally illegal in some regions since paid advertising needs to be disclosed.
an_aparallelover 1 year ago
disgusting idea, i hope it fails miserably.