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Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

listic wrote: post #11

I wonder how does this business scale. $15 a month is not much for paying salary.

$15 a month per subscriber; surely one person can write hundreds of messages and maintain dozens of personalities a month, especially when aided by some text recognition and pointers ("your personality with this customer is 'nerdy', suggested replies: 'Dr. Who is the shit!', 'ia! ia!', 'bush did 9/11'"). I don't know what the average income in the US is, but with a hundred subscribers per person you'd be looking at about $1500 / month, which sounds decent.

It also depends on how much messages you get though; I'm sure there's a few that will just chat all day to fill up a need for social contact, while others will just message a few times a month to keep up appearances. Of course, as 'girlfriend' you could (and probably should) do some flood control yourself (max x messages / day / person) to be able to keep up with as many clients as possible.

Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by traek »

sargun wrote: post #20
lmm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

Wait, you need human moderators between the customer and the bot? Why?

No, he is saying you need human moderators if you're connecting two users and letting them speak to each other.

Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by guard-of-terra »

lmm wrote: post #17
ilkkao wrote: post #6

If the boyfriend/girlfriend ratio is 60/40, they could almost just connect these people together.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

"Moderated dating" is an interesting idea by itself.

Where both sides have to conform to a very strict etiquette (platform rules), until they both decide to move their relationship to next level anyway. I can see how it can appeal to some people.

Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by mirimir »

keithpeter wrote: post #5

OA quote: ""lower league English football" wasn't available" Possibly explains the recurring need for a fake one. Serious contribution: bots faking it with other bots generating large numbers of apparently real social profiles. Not just gf/bf whatever but other forms of relationship (fake boss asking for more work this weekend as a cover for...). Ideal chaff for the surveillance society.

I like that a lot :)

Even now, it wouldn't be hard to pipe one fake friend to another. Add some delay and rate limiting. Route it through your Tor relay, VPN service, or whatever.

Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by Gravityloss »

sargun wrote: post #20
lmm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

Wait, you need human moderators between the customer and the bot? Why?

Well, there's a limit what even a bot should take...

Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by MasterScrat »

lmm wrote: post #17
ilkkao wrote: post #6

If the boyfriend/girlfriend ratio is 60/40, they could almost just connect these people together.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

> If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators

Sooo Tinder reviews every message? or did I misunderstand your point

Re: Fake girlfriend, revisited

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Post by noir_lord »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #25
lmm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

"Moderated dating" is an interesting idea by itself. Where both sides have to conform to a very strict etiquette (platform rules), until they both decide to move their relationship to next level anyway. I can see how it can appeal to some people.

That is what a chaperone was in thethe past, many cultures still have that set of rules thing until a certain point.
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