Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
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#2I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online.
Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast.
Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?
Re: Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
#3My hat to their growth hacker, they managed to raise 200 millions.
Re: Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
#4I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online. Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast. Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?
> Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?
I suspect the short answer is yes, and part of me wonders if this will actually be a good thing in the long run. It seems we’ve gotten pretty far from our social origins, arguably with some ill effects.
I’m more worried that this will usher in an era of draconian online verification out of apparent necessity.
Re: Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
#5I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online. Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast. Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?
> Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon? I suspect the short answer is yes, and part of me wonders if this will actually be a good thing in the long run. It seems we’ve gotten pretty far from our social origins, arguably with some ill effects. I’m more worried that this will usher in an era of draconian online verification out of apparent necessity.
Ephemeral platforms seem like they'd be less attractive targets to the bot shill farms than a place where you might be able to stick a top comment in a thread and get all the eyeballs on it forever.
Re: Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
#6I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online. Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast. Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?
I am worried that you are a bot.
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#7Re: Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
#8Softbank truly appears to have whatever is the opposite of the Midas touch. I'm quite impressed, actually.
Re: Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
#9Softbank truly appears to have whatever is the opposite of the Midas touch. I'm quite impressed, actually.
a Mirdas touch, if you will.
They did have some successful exits though right?
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#10> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I’ll just leave this here.