I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me

Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by binary132 on Monday December 22, 2025 @09:49AM (#46354532)

I don’t think advertisers want to spend money for bot clicks.

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by nullocator on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:34AM (#46354939)

Or maybe they do, because the big open secret in advertising is that they do spend quite a bit of money on exactly that

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by ryandrake on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:29PM (#46356301)

I don't even think it's a secret anymore, open or otherwise. As long as Vanity Metric Goes Up, it doesn't seem like anyone, anywhere, actually cares how much "economic activity" is fake.

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by Viliam1234 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:48PM (#46370882)

That's why the social networks don't want to talk about the bots, but they are happy to have them.

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by BobbyTables2 on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:33PM (#46398541)

I suspect it’s the “nobody got fired for buying IBM” mentality.

Who in marketing doesn’t want to champion the success of “we got 25% more views this month!”

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