Selling followers where the skies are blue
we are totally real people with stolen photos and identical biographiesAs Bluesky approaches the 30 million user mark, operators of services that sell bogus social media engagement have been escalating…
Tag: selling
Selling account names in the blue, blue skies
buying social media account names is pretty much always a bad ideaBluesky continues to grow in popularity, and with that growth comes attempts to recreate spammy scams that have been…
Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress
Pitch Dreck While projecting an image of sustainability, Microsoft has secretly been selling bespoke AI services to fossil fuel giants and claiming it can help them make even more money…
Nvidia Should Be Printing Money Right Now by Selling AI Hardware. Instead, Its Stock Is Falling
Bot Drop Earlier this year, AI chipmaker Nvidia was riding high, enjoying a record-breaking valuation of $3.3 trillion. But this summer, investors started asking some tough questions. Shareholders started getting…
In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition
Going to the vending machine — do you want something? Soda? Gum? A round or two of bullets? A growing number of supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets…
People Are Selling AI Clones of Dead Relatives for Just $150
Ghost Bots In China, the AI cloning of dead relatives has become a thriving cottage industry, driving down prices and spurring technological advances in the years since these kinds of…
Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data
Scraping By Stack Overflow, the go-to forum for programmers and software developers, announced a partnership with OpenAI to sell the site’s data — including its users’ forum posts — to…
The Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Is Selling Cameo Videos Now
It’s been a wild week for the obviously over-it Oompa Loompa from that wonky “Wonka Experience” in Scotland — and now, she’s capitalizing upon her newfound fame. For just $25…
Reply Bots Selling Mugs With Garbled AI Nonsense on Them
Mugging in Progress Sometimes the reply bots imitate AI bots, creating the dumbest tchotchkes imaginable. No website is better suited to facilitate this unholy fusion than X, formerly Twitter, where…
CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal
CNET parent company Red Ventures has been looking to sell off the stalwart technology site, according to a new report from Axios. But unfortunately for Red Ventures, it’s had a…