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> AI hype guys on Twitter work pro bono. Nobody pays them they just shill whatever the latest thing is. I thought this was the case, until I saw how identical

> AI hype guys on Twitter work pro bono. Nobody pays them they just shill whatever the latest thing is. I thought this was the case, until I saw how identical all of the messages were, including the order of the bullet points. It was clearly some form of paid marketing - or fake accounts, except they all had blue ticks (not that that means much these days).

sangnoir 3y ago
> I thought this was the case, until I saw how identical all of the messages were, including the order of the bullet points. This has always been the case for all corporate fanbois on Twitter. As an ancient example: there was a time when Steve Jobs proclaimed that 3.5" screens were the perfect size, and 5.5"/6" phones were too big(!!). This was followed by suspiciously similar talking points recirculating in the "iPhone Twitter" echo-chamber[0]: including the same doctored image[1] that compared thumb-coverage of a 3.5' iPhone vs the Galaxy Note (IIRC). I don't think Apple was directly paying people to say those things: they simply confirmed their biases and they felt compelled to share the "truth". 0. Trended on Twitter, and even appeared on blogs written by Apple superfans like Marco Arment and Gruber 1. The phones were not to scale and the image was inaccurate in a way that was unfavorable towards the non-iPhone phablet.