“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”

Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by morganvachon on Sunday April 29, 2018 @03:08PM (#16953407)

Even the logo is spot on. This is dark satire indeed, predicting the near future where someone out there actually will offer such a service, and millions will buy into it. This would be a perfect fit in the world of Black Mirror.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by derefr on Sunday April 29, 2018 @03:42PM (#16953552)

As both a speculative fiction author and an entrepreneur, new ideas sometimes have me on the fence for whether I should make them into businesses, or into dystopian novellas.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by kbenson on Sunday April 29, 2018 @03:57PM (#16953621)

Anywhere we can read your work?

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:29PM (#16954522)

Probably YC Round 2019.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by camillomiller on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:15AM (#16984637)

Happens rarely, but I laughed out loud at a HN comment :)

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by escape_goat on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:44PM (#16955566)

Also the title.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by dfox on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:39PM (#16954562)

Made my day

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by itronitron on Monday April 30, 2018 @12:50AM (#16955828)

this would be hard to scale as you would probably need to generate new images for each client, but if you could auto-generate imagery per client that would help (still the subscription needs to be priced higher)

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by Double_a_92 on Monday April 30, 2018 @10:27AM (#16958775)

The "influencer" would just have to take a lot of pictures for each event. Maybe the same from different angles...

Could easily generate hundreds of photos from one "session".

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by ponderatul on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:44AM (#16957431)

One issue at a time

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by otakucode on Sunday April 29, 2018 @09:21PM (#16955037)

Or China if they could improve your 'social credit' rating. I am a little disappointed though. From the title I thought the service would be for faking profiles in order to trick the data vacuuming companies. Filling their databases with fake useless garbage has been my desire for awhile.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by tedmiston on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:49PM (#16954618)

FWIW services kinda like this already exist — there are marketplaces for "social influencers" to buy content.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by naiv on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:56AM (#16956654)

Would be great to have a link in this thread for comparison?

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by jd_routledge on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:46AM (#16957163)

Thanks - we're very happy with the reaction and all this amazing discussion - it's exactly what we wanted!

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by hunter2_ on Monday April 30, 2018 @10:23AM (#16958751)

The bottom of the FAQ did me in, but that's a perfect place: the people who are about to bounce anyway.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by rosstex on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:49PM (#16954913)

It even looks like the 'e' is winking. I really like this logo.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by cabalamat on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:57AM (#16957494)

I cottoned on that it was (probably) fake, but I can imagine someone doing this for real.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by feedmeseymour on Sunday April 29, 2018 @04:10PM (#16953684)

The movie Idiocracy is an example.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by sudouser on Sunday April 29, 2018 @05:19PM (#16953972)

movie? thought it’s a documentary

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by toss1 on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:48PM (#16954906)

yup, time-shifted documentary.

but the value of t in the film is erroneous, and the actual value is unknown.

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Re:“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” by 1024core on Sunday April 29, 2018 @05:31PM (#16954015)

LOL, yep. I used to refer to it as a movie; but now I call it a documentary.

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