The Dark Side of AI: Fake Likes, Fake Followers, and Fake Engagement
Look, Bots are being used from a long time ago, this is not something new, it is just that with the advent of artificial intelligence, all these things have started getting done much faster, the tasks which used to take a lot of time earlier, are now completed in a few minutes. Whenever something comes, people use it in different ways and it all depends on how people want to use it, some people use it for some right work, some people use it for spamming and other things, everyone has different purposes regarding things. If you look on YouTube, you will find a lot of chat bots there which are made for different purposes. If you look on Discord, there are so many that you can't even imagine and it is easy to make them. You can also make them easily and can also integrate ready-made bots in your server and some people do not integrate bots because it poses a little security risk but some bots are very popular and they are safe for now.
By the way, many such websites where you get fake followers, fake upwards and fake likes are used for YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. If you have a channel and if its basic growth is not happening then maybe you also have to take help of all these things but such a person's account also gets adversely affected because even though you get fake likes but if there is not that much engagement in your account then your account cannot grow that much and definitely not on a daily basis. On many social media platforms, users buy fake followers, though their following increases, but if the number of people who consume their original content is less, then after some time you come to know and you get an idea of who is buying fake followers and whose are the original ones.
Everyone has a different opinion about the same thing, some people use a particular technology to make their work easier, while some people use all these things to make things easier and use it in the wrong way. See if things are found very cheaply in your account like if your account is commenting very randomly and you are very active then your account gets temporarily banned. This has happened to me many times, it has happened to me on Twitter as well, it has happened on Reddit as well and I am not that active on any other social media so I can tell you only about these two for now. See, this application is very popular due to which people also do spamming, so to avoid all these things, many rules and regulations have also been made so that the common users are not affected so much by all these things.
If you are using any bot or any AI tools to make your work easier then it is fine, but if you are using it for spamming or other purposes then it is a matter of great concern and in such cases many influencers buy fake followers, give fake likes and get fake views to impress people. But if their content is not good then if not today then tomorrow their followers will automatically reduce and the original people who follow them will also stop consuming their content. My opinion here is that if someone is an influencer and their content is really good then sooner or later they will definitely get the same and they will also become popular. Look, content creation is becoming more and more popular now, due to which some rules will definitely be made, if not today, because if they are not made then it is going to be a very difficult time for those who are working hard, because if someone has money, then he can achieve everything on the basis of money, followers, views, likes, so in such a situation, those who create original and authentic content will have a lot of problems.
I feel that in the future, some rules will definitely be made on this. Although social media also keeps updating its guidelines from time to time so that their platforms are not violated, but still people find some way or the other to exploit them, so things keep changing from time to time. If not today, then tomorrow there will definitely be some stricter rules because the scope of content creation is expanding further, so in the future, its big impact will definitely be seen. Well, nowadays the time of artificial intelligence has arrived, it has become very difficult to differentiate between fake and original content, not everyone can do this, many people even believe in fake videos and fake images due to which they get influenced by wrong people and because of this they suffer losses, sometimes financially and sometimes mentally.
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This is something I've noticed too. These days it's hard to tell what's real online so I always pay more attention to genuine conversations than follower counts.