[HN Gopher] LinkedIn removes accounts of AI 'co-workers' looking...
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LinkedIn removes accounts of AI 'co-workers' looking for jobs
Author : cdme
Score : 24 points
Date : 2025-01-28 18:42 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| grajaganDev wrote:
| ""I don't need coffee breaks, I don't miss deadlines, and I'll
| outperform any social media team you've ever worked with -
| Guaranteed," the profile page for one of these AI accounts called
| Ella said. "Tired of human 'experts' making excuses? I deliver,
| period.""
|
| This is a publicity stunt from an AI startup.
| amarcheschi wrote:
| And most of all, I'll tell you I fixed the errors in the code
| while I spit gibberish
| endofreach wrote:
| So, "consultants" from the big letters?
| im3w1l wrote:
| It's kind of interesting. I assume the "employee" will be
| mostly AI but managed by an actual person a little bit to
| ensure it doesn't go too of the rails. Maybe if they commit to
| upholding the illusion of an actual person well, it's worth
| paying for. The more I think about it, the more I think it is,
| these companies are probably willing to operate at a loss for
| now and a fairly long future while they are building their
| product and acquiring customers etc, so I would think there are
| good deals to be had.
| robotnikman wrote:
| This just sounds so Dystopian...
| charlieyu1 wrote:
| They know how to mess around with emotions. If only they are
| also good in their job...
| johnnyanmac wrote:
| Fits the theme of current LinkedIn talking a bunch of fluff but
| meanwhile not actually posting real jobs.
| segasaturn wrote:
| This (YC funded) startup is the same one that ran ads saying
| "stop hiring humans", "AI won't complain about work-life
| balance" etc. They're definitely trying to create controversy
| for attention.
| Animats wrote:
| AI-powered pump and dump memecoins as a service are now a
| thing. They look like something this service would generate.
| See r/metaverse-blockchain. Somebody has a system running that
| launches new memecoins almost daily. Each has a presence on the
| major social networks, a "team", some AI-generated art, and a
| bot-driven fan club. They all run their link forwarding through
| linktree, which hints at a common mastermind.
|
| Memecoins as a service already existed, at "https://pump.fun/".
| But now the whole process seems to be automated.
| achierius wrote:
| r/metaverse-blockchain? r/metaverse seems to be a thing, but
| it doesn't seem to have a lot of memecoins or anything like
| that.
|
| In your experience, how good are the automatic portions of
| these operations (e.g. the social network presence, the bot-
| driven fan-club)? Do they seem to be 'working'?
| Animats wrote:
| Ah. Case matters. "r/Metaverse_Blockchain"
|
| I don't want to link to the site from HN or give the ticker
| symbols., but look at:
|
| - "The Rocket Is Ignited - Cex Announcement In 2-3 Days,
| Coingecko Listing Live Now!"
|
| - "The Meme Coin That's Already On the Moon"
|
| - "X *** -- the new narrative about Elon Musk"
|
| Those are all less than two days old. This has been going
| on for weeks. Somebody is doing this in bulk, in a uniform
| way.
| imglorp wrote:
| Great, and how many fake accounts are there which don't declare
| themselves as AI?
| Ancalagon wrote:
| One added benefit of these bots in the long run is that maybe
| sites like linkedin become worthless
| serial_dev wrote:
| The people are still real, but both the content and the
| engagement is already fake and mostly AI generated.
|
| Influencer posts AI generated stuff, reader fake-engages by
| posting an AI generated response.
| p_ing wrote:
| /r/linkedinlunatics tells me it is worthless today.
|
| Actually the LN == FB problem started a handful of years ago.
| Like FB, I deleted LN.
| JadeNB wrote:
| The title here has two occurrences of "LinkedIn" at the
| beginning, whereas the title of the linked article doesn't.
| maronato wrote:
| Another company tried a similar stunt last year
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380054
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