[tariqali34]

I think there is a distinction between misleading marketing and scamming. If you promise "revolutionary AI" and only give the customer templates and algorithms, well, at least the customer have a program that can make websites. That's useful.

A scam, on the other hand, would not deliver anything at all...period. That is because, no matter how easy it is to produce the templates and algorithms, it's just cheaper to take the money and run.

Obviously, it's scummy to mislead your consumers to get them to buy a product. But I would say that misleading your consumers to buy a product that doesn't even exist is even scummier.

[titfn]

Send me $10 and I promise that I'll send you back $20 shortly... I might change my mind and only send you back $5 but it's definitely not a scam because I sent something back

[tariqali34]

Yeah, okay, that's a fair enough point. I will need to probably figure out a better dividing line between "false advertising" and "outright scam".

[astine]

False advertising is a scam, it's just one that lots of established companies get away with. I guess there is a difference between that and one of those confidence schemes where the entire organization is a fraud, but it's still a scam.

[kbutler]

I sell you an amazing AI that will write novels, given some natural language input. I deliver you a word processor and templates.

Scam?