Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I hate ads but their designed to be shown to people and intentionally using bots to inflate ad views is very clearly fraud. Silicon valley had something similar with bot farms to fake user engagement to take in VC funding. You take money in exchange for some kinda engagement metric which you’re faking.

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  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah. I’m totally cool with ripping off advertising companies.

    Fuck them in particular.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ah shit. You’ve got a legal point.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The ads were served, right?

  No, and that’s exactly the point that makes it a fraud (not stealing)

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