Newslttrs report that there has been an increase in ‘sadcore’ posts on Facebook which are being used to earn profits from sympathies. These posts are AI-generated and tend to evoke emotions of sympathy and well-wishes in users. These posts can be about old people celebrating their birthdays all alone or someone posting about their father making something and saying that no one seems to like his work. Even though these kinds of posts are easy to detect as AI-generated by familiar people with AI, they still gain thousands of sympathy comments and even direct payments from the users.
Some of these posts earn revenue from Facebook’s star system where each star is worth a penny. Even though the star system doesn’t generate much on individual posts, it can collectively get real income through thousands of comments on hundreds of posts. Some posts also drive traffic to ad-heavy websites while some sell guest posts to spammers on websites like Fiverr. AI spam posts build a content page and when it is well received by users, they sell their services to other AI spammers. Facebook users who cannot differentiate AI-slope from real, are being exploited.
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Some of these posts earn revenue from Facebook’s star system where each star is worth a penny. Even though the star system doesn’t generate much on individual posts, it can collectively get real income through thousands of comments on hundreds of posts. Some posts also drive traffic to ad-heavy websites while some sell guest posts to spammers on websites like Fiverr. AI spam posts build a content page and when it is well received by users, they sell their services to other AI spammers. Facebook users who cannot differentiate AI-slope from real, are being exploited.
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