Pretty much what pinkdrunkenelephants said earlier, but more likely just fake profiles that are filled with “interesting” random tidbits. On the off case that they match, some conversation might happen and I’d actually bet on the bot eventually ghosting or coming up with an excuse to leave the person and wishing them luck, which more easily avoids being found out and also has a good chance of keeping the person in the app.
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gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoapp sponsored AI bots to lure people into paying premium
sorry but what do you mean? Can you please explain?
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year ago
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Join blah you have 3 premium messages waiting…
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
still not get it. You imply that these “premium messages” will be messages by AI bot accounts ?
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
and what does it prevent them to do the same thing now? In both cases, sooner or later the real users will figure out they are bot accounts. I don’t get how the company will benefit if they have a series of angry users when they realize that the messages were from bots all along? Or are they gonna keep the bar so high that the end users will never realize that they were bot accounts.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The apps can literally just use AIs to pretend to be real people convincingly to get people to pay for a premium membership to presumably be able to arrange a meetup. After they pay for premium, they’re ghosted, and it’s too late to get their money back.
Among other things
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 1 year ago
Or have the AI pretend to be the other person for a pair it calculates to match. After the two meet they’ll figure out there was an AI middle man catfishing them both. They’ll have a laugh and live happily ever after.
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
lol or “pay to win”. Pay to have an AI reply for you that will guarantee to get the conversation going
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
yes, and how long until this be known? If the company self-sabotage itself so profoundly it will just be the end of the company. I’m not saying that their end goal is to survive forever, but this is incredibly shortsighted.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People would still use the apps anyway or use them specifically to talk to AIs. An AI-driven app that is honest about what it is would probably do a lot more to help than anything else, come to think of it. 🤔