X is becoming a ‘ghost town’ of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated “zombie content” designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the “great AI flood”.

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    4 months ago

    The key is to start small - throw away money for the victim so they don’t think it through.

    Then you progressively ask for larger amounts working the victim over with the sunk cost fallacy.

    It doesn’t take much, the victim naturally doesn’t want to admit they fucked up, and you can reinforce that so they think they’re doing the right thing by investing more money.

    Keep it up until they are bankrupt, then disappear.

    People have invested years I their twitter profile. They don’t want to admit it was a total waste of time.