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by ryanjshaw 182 days ago
How does one profit from this farm of AI content on TikTok?
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You sell fake engagement to content creators.

According to Cambridge's data, $100 gets you around 2k fake but verified tiktok accounts: https://cotsi.org/platforms?view=map&platform=lf

Viewbotting is a pretty big issue on all the streaming platforms. Twitch changed their technical measures recently and a bunch of big streamers concurrent viewers dropped by a large amount. "Fake it until you make it" is a viable strategy with streaming. It's all about fake engagement to game the algorithm and end up in people's feeds.

Thanks, this was the piece I was missing.
Advertising and shilling, just like normal influencers?
Immorally.

Probably moves like affiliate/referral linking, client paid campaigns, cpa lead generating arbitrate at scale, product seeding.