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"“I don’t need coffee breaks, I don’t miss deadlines, and I’ll outperform any social media team you’ve ever worked with - Guaranteed," the profile page for one of these AI accounts called Ella said. “Tired of human ‘experts’ making excuses? I deliver, period.”"

This is a publicity stunt from an AI startup.

This (YC funded) startup is the same one that ran ads saying "stop hiring humans", "AI won't complain about work-life balance" etc. They're definitely trying to create controversy for attention.

AI-powered pump and dump memecoins as a service are now a thing. They look like something this service would generate. See r/metaverse-blockchain. Somebody has a system running that launches new memecoins almost daily. Each has a presence on the major social networks, a "team", some AI-generated art, and a bot-driven fan club. They all run their link forwarding through linktree, which hints at a common mastermind.

Memecoins as a service already existed, at "https://pump.fun/". But now the whole process seems to be automated.

r/metaverse-blockchain? r/metaverse seems to be a thing, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of memecoins or anything like that.

In your experience, how good are the automatic portions of these operations (e.g. the social network presence, the bot-driven fan-club)? Do they seem to be 'working'?

Ah. Case matters. "r/Metaverse_Blockchain"

I don't want to link to the site from HN or give the ticker symbols., but look at:

- "The Rocket Is Ignited – Cex Announcement In 2-3 Days, Coingecko Listing Live Now!"

- "The Meme Coin That’s Already On the Moon"

- "X *** — the new narrative about Elon Musk"

Those are all less than two days old. This has been going on for weeks. Somebody is doing this in bulk, in a uniform way.

And most of all, I'll tell you I fixed the errors in the code while I spit gibberish

So, "consultants" from the big letters?

This just sounds so Dystopian...

Which is funny. Last century that seemed to be the promised land a lot of people dreamed of. Unfeeling robots that never tired would do all our work for us without distraction or complaints, and leave us to lives of decadence and leisure.

Never made the slightest bit of sense to me, mind you. Why on earth would the owners of these productive machines ever just give them away? Out of the goodness of their hearts? When has that ever happened, from the steam engine to the cotton gin to the computer?

I don't think it's dystopian though, it's just history continually repeating itself. Maybe it seems more sinister to people here because it's potentially happening to them rather than the cobbler or blacksmith.

'cause if there was socialism, everybody would own the robots, and everybody would "profit" from their "labor."

History has proven that people are generally very reluctant to share their wealth or power with others outside very small family and tribal groups, no matter what label you put on the can. So I just don't see how AI or robots could to turn human nature on its head.

They know how to mess around with emotions. If only they are also good in their job…

Fits the theme of current LinkedIn talking a bunch of fluff but meanwhile not actually posting real jobs.

It's kind of interesting. I assume the "employee" will be mostly AI but managed by an actual person a little bit to ensure it doesn't go too of the rails. Maybe if they commit to upholding the illusion of an actual person well, it's worth paying for. The more I think about it, the more I think it is, these companies are probably willing to operate at a loss for now and a fairly long future while they are building their product and acquiring customers etc, so I would think there are good deals to be had.

One added benefit of these bots in the long run is that maybe sites like linkedin become worthless

The people are still real, but both the content and the engagement is already fake and mostly AI generated.

Influencer posts AI generated stuff, reader fake-engages by posting an AI generated response.

That's something that insecure people with no actual skills do

/r/linkedinlunatics tells me it is worthless today.

Actually the LN == FB problem started a handful of years ago. Like FB, I deleted LN.

Great, and how many fake accounts are there which don't declare themselves as AI?

More than anyone could ever count.

Another company tried a similar stunt last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380054

The title here has two occurrences of "LinkedIn" at the beginning, whereas the title of the linked article doesn't.

I try not to be personally prejudiced. But this is the kind of things that make me automatically classify any person who works with marketing and advertising as non-trustworthy, gross and oportunistic.

I cannot describe how much I see marketing and advertising as disgusting low-brow dishonest stuff.

Yeah.. I think LinkedIn did the right thing here. I’m seeing reckless ai generated shit recommendations or ideas over and over making their way to leadership that completely discount any consideration of important factors that keep businesses viable… so far the old guard are wise enough to say no… so you will see more and more of it force fed.

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