[ChrisMarshallNY]

This exact kind of fraud, is just what AI should be good for.

I made 10K fake users for testing the app I'm developing now. I used thispersondoesnotexist.com, and about a half hour's worth of PHP programming, to make an open-ended user generator.

I only need 10K users, and it takes about an hour or so to generate them, but I'm sure that this type of thing could be easily scaled.

"Hey, ChatGPT, can you give me the SQL for five million users, with the schema published here?"

[kbos87]

This has non nefarious uses too. In a b2b context it’s often prohibitively time consuming to generate really good but non-real demo data.

[spop]

I'm working on a platform that lets you generate fake users, but for the purpose of product research: https://notionsmith.ai/

You describe an idea and get very realistic users that you can chat with. Hooking that up to an email account could have been very convincing...

Typing in Frank's elevator pitch:

"Frank is a financial platform that helps college students manage their financial aid and student debt. Frank offers a free solution that allows you to streamline your FAFSA application, educates you about what FAFSA does and what parts of the application are important, and helps you potentially get additional money."

Gives some cool results

[erik_seaberg]

Maybe we need lorem ipsum but for a user profile table. No reason it should be unique if you aren’t trying to learn anything from statistics.

[apercu]

Makes boundary testing a lot easier.

[throw_m239339]

I mean you can go even further, you can use ChatGPT to make these fake people answer real emails from JP Morgan. You can completely fake people online. Of course JPM wouldn't have gotten any business from these bots, but it would have been harder to prove that these 4 millions emails were fraudulent.

100% Fake business, fake customers. $175M valuation. What I don't get is why JPM didn't realize that this company had no revenue, unless they completely cooked the books.

[yowzadave]

What would be the email domains of all these fake users? I'm presuming Gmail has defenses against someone creating millions of fake addresses via automated means. Maybe you'd have to buy a bunch of email addresses on the black market from some hacker. Sounds like a lot of effort and fraud for something that will certainly be found out sooner or later and result in you going to jail.