The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.
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SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 4 days agoHmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he’s selling the solution to it
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 days ago
artifex@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
He’s a modern day arms dealer.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 days ago
It's actually low-key brilliant. Start a gold rush, when you realize the gold isn't actually there, pivot to selling shovels and keep hyping the gold rush. Fools and their money are soon parted, and there seem to be an endless supply of them.