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Startup IDEA: AI Chat bots promoting goods being a friend

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Startup IDEA: AI Chat bots promoting goods being a friend

#1
The idea is to a create a network of chatbots acting as real people on various social media platforms.So this network of bots would be chatting/conversing with various people online and will eventually become their virtual friends.

So now for example a company approaches our startup to promote say mobile phones ,we will use this network of bots to create an artificial word of mouth thus giving sales a boast.

This network of bots could also create a community which could be used to create fake FOMO and promote brand. For example a community created contains 90% our bots and 10% real members so with these bots web can create a trend in the community and introduce FOMO in the community to expand sales.

Re: Startup IDEA: AI Chat bots promoting goods being a friend

#2
oh my, i have nothing to say but going to sit here for the comments.

edit: actually I can't sit it out. To some extent what you are suggesting is probably already what companies will do.

Saying that your version is just a tad more unethical and has probably already been done for years with AI chatbots before LLMS.