You can’t collect your pension if the state declares you dead, and an AI in India is going around doing that, sometimes to people still alive. They say AI but I’m not sure this is actually AI at all, sounds more like a database?
What good is it to buy fake followers, will people actually get meaningfully fooled?
I think this is a problem with advertising. On one hand, there seems to be a consensus that advertising is important. On the other hand, there are no specific predictions.
If you design a better mousetrap and buy ads on Facebook, how much you should spend on ads, and how many extra mousetraps should you expect to sell? No one knows. Heck, you can’t even verify whether Facebook actually showed your ad to as many people as they said they would! If the sales are bad, are the mousetraps bad, or was your Facebook ad bad, or is advertising on Facebook bad and you should have advertised somewhere else instead? No one knows. (In theory, there are ways how you could attempt to measure something, but in practice, there is a lot of noise.)
So people just guess, and pray for a lucky outcome. They probably won’t even know if they actually got it, because sometimes you have no idea how many mousetraps you would sell in the alternative reality without ads.
And that is the kind of environment where superstition rules; where saying “I have a million followers” impresses people, even if they suspect than many of them are bots. Still better than paying someone who only had thousand followers (especially considering that some of those may be bots, too).
Sounds like a new excuse for an old problem.
I think this is a problem with advertising. On one hand, there seems to be a consensus that advertising is important. On the other hand, there are no specific predictions.
If you design a better mousetrap and buy ads on Facebook, how much you should spend on ads, and how many extra mousetraps should you expect to sell? No one knows. Heck, you can’t even verify whether Facebook actually showed your ad to as many people as they said they would! If the sales are bad, are the mousetraps bad, or was your Facebook ad bad, or is advertising on Facebook bad and you should have advertised somewhere else instead? No one knows. (In theory, there are ways how you could attempt to measure something, but in practice, there is a lot of noise.)
So people just guess, and pray for a lucky outcome. They probably won’t even know if they actually got it, because sometimes you have no idea how many mousetraps you would sell in the alternative reality without ads.
And that is the kind of environment where superstition rules; where saying “I have a million followers” impresses people, even if they suspect than many of them are bots. Still better than paying someone who only had thousand followers (especially considering that some of those may be bots, too).