I saw this post on Twitter and I was taken aback. Over 70k followers for a fictitious business is a lot. I wonder if real local small restaurants would be able to build a large follower base if they employed a similar strategy.

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That's pretty much a metaphor for the modern internet. Fake business and fake posts and fake images spell success. I'm curious to know who did that and what the point was. It could be a kid in his bedroom goofing around, or it could be a serious researcher in a university media lab exploring human nature.

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That’s what I was wondering too. The person is clearly dedicated and coming up with captions and images to keep up the facade. Even if all of the writing and posts are AI, that takes some time. Someone on Twitter inquired if they were trying to build a following and then sell the account to an actual up and coming restaurant.

I wonder if most of those people know it’s AI and just like the photos? I like a couple AI accounts on insta because they post really cool AI generated mansions lol.

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I feel like some people probably don’t know. I’ve noticed that some have a hard time discerning what is AI and what is real and to be honest, I can’t blame them because in some instances, you really have to look hard. I think AI food is easier to trick people as opposed to AI people.

Also was thinking, especially if I’m not even in the area, you kind of like and follow and don’t think much of it. I wonder how much of the 70k are legitimate users at that rate too. Very interesting though, people spend tons of time and money and can’t get a fraction of that.

Sadly I think there will be a ton of accounts like this in the future

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