Comment on TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg'
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 year agoIt’s either paid by the users or by the advertisers, or do you have a better plan on how to fund running such platform?
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Nope, I don’t, otherwise I’d do it because it would be a massive change to whats out there.
I was a bit too short on my comment I admit. I am laughing about the suggestion because making a completely new community with paid access from the start will doom it immediately. It needs to have a certain pull to get users to actually pay something and so far I’d say thats either failed or platforms have not quite taken off.
Same as converting a free community to a paid access model, for that you just need to look at what happens to Twitter. Its a slow bleed but it certainly damaged the platform. Instagram is next it seems with the ad-free tiering that will no doubt lead to obnoxious ads. We will see if they achieved the necessary pull to keep people there or not.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes because Something awful has struggled over the decades so much.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Ok, they have like 200.000 users registered. I know its historically an important site but in terms of userbase that is nothing.
And do they have a lengthy vetting process for accuracy and authenticity in place as you are asking for?
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who said this platform would be the biggest?
You’re making a lot of assumptions and it’s coming off as seal-lioning so I’m going to disengage from you here. Cheers.