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im genuinely interested how dating app bots work, how do they know you swiped on them and how do they automatically change their profiles to include an instagram that links to their only fans after a certain amount of time etc etc. Its also funny that I get banned for putting a tomato pie recipe in my bio but sex bots can have dozens of identical accounts hah
how do they know you swiped on them
This information is sold on some apps, though matching is a good enough proxy on tindr-likes if I follow how they work (I've only used one and, uh, never really understood it)
how do they automatically change their profiles to include an instagram that links to their only fans after a certain amount of time
I think they usually link through DMs, usually about 5 rounds in
I think they usually link through DMs, usually about 5 rounds in
nope, on some apps, profiles would automatically change their descriptions as soon as you checked their profiles after matching. Seems the people running them are kind of knowledgeable about them. I wonder if organized prostitution will be replaced by sex workers paying coders to make them bots like these in order to reel in new customers. It's certainly much safer and better than traditional sex work where women are exploited imo, instead of being out on the street you just stay in bed, film a few vids, launch your bot thingy and watch your bank account grow. Girlboss shit
I wonder if organized prostitution will be replaced by sex workers paying coders to make them bots like these in order to reel in new customers.
I want you to just spend another couple of minutes thinking this through. Let's imagine counterfactually that it had any basis in reality (and wasn't, like, credit card scams, chaturbate-style sites, and so on) and that these were individually operating people who wanted to do prostitution or something. That's a bunch of small businesses. What does capital do over time? It centralizes. Soon, it would be overrun by enterprises at scale that pushed independent prostitutes to the margins (this happens with traditional prostitution in most contexts as well, though there are legal countermeasures for it in some societies) because fewer centralized businesses are going to be better at repeatedly accomplishing an extremely repetitive task over and over. The same thing has also played out with scams, with a trend towards "businesses" running telephone farms and eventually bot farms, etc. Eventually, and by that I mean within the span of less than a decade, you would just get more digital pimping than we already have, not some ancap utopia of freelance girlbosses like you're imagining.
There are aspects of the transition to new(ish) means of production that can temporarily serve to better human conditions, but any sort of development in productive capacity (which is all this amounts to) is just going to be "disruption" bullshit, i.e. the replacing of one monopoly with another. It is only by changing the relations of production that society can take a fundamentally better shape, here or in any other facet of life. A more advanced computer in the hands of the same master (or in reach of the same master) is just a more sophisticated means of oppression in the long run, and nowhere is that truer than under capitalism, where the pressure to expand pushes everyone towards monopoly in all markets.
I want you to just spend another couple of minutes thinking this through.
yeah I wrote this in jest and didnt really think about it too hard, your comment is a very good rebuke, thanks for typing it out
Any time
If there’s enough profit in running these schemes/scams then I imagine there are people who have written ways to hook into the apps and can feed the bots all relevant info needed. Granted I feel like finding some kind of niche in the online gaming world to bot/rmt is probably less ethically compromising but I have no idea what the profit aspect looks like on these kinds of grifts.
(One day I’ll write about how 21year old me wrote a bot for a classic EverQuest server for beer money and post it here, but not today)