Startup IDEA: AI Chat bots promoting goods being a friend

3 points by askmany 2 years ago | 3 comments

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.

lawlessone 2 years ago |

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.

al2o3cr 2 years ago |

Or you could just, y'know, NOT make the world a worse place for no reason.

Be aware that beyond being spammy garbage behavior, this kind of thing is also literally illegal in some regions since paid advertising needs to be disclosed.

an_aparallel 2 years ago |

disgusting idea, i hope it fails miserably.