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There will be no lawsuit. This kind of work long predates OF. Premium sex chat SMS services were doing the same thing at least a decade before OF existed.

csomar 2y ago
Lawsuits are based on the probability of being able to extract and its amount; not the relevance of the claim or the morality of it. Given that Onlyfans is moving billions, it's probably only a matter of time before they start getting their share of lawsuits.
EGreg 2y ago
Hm seems one was already filed so… you’re wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879574 I was surprised the Tates were bragging in great detail about doing that years ago and no one seems to care that they defrauded men out of millions
- yakshaving_jgt 2y ago
  Indeed, I was 100% wrong. That’s a really interesting link. Thanks for sharing!
  - EGreg 2y ago
    By the way the Tates have just the other day rugpulled many of their followers AGAIN — in a different way: https://x.com/gadget44027447/status/1860339419020231071?s=46&t=6NqVriDzUg62-oO7pw1olA https://x.com/gadget44027447/status/1860339419020231071?s=46...
edm0nd 2y ago
This. I used to spam thirsty dudes on AOL/AIM/Yahoo Chat/MSN Messenger with a chatbot with prompts to convert them to porn website sales in the 90s. I made 6 figures one year. It wasnt even AI, just if else shit and looking for keywords in their messages and then reply X or Y lol. One of my favorite quotes: Never underestimate the stupidity of a man with his dick in one hand and his wallet in the other.
- sizzle 2y ago
  Damn six figs in the 90’s was a lot. Please tell me you invested it in Bitcoin and are a tres commas club lol Any other crazy stories from those times? You seemed to be ahead of the curve.
  - edm0nd 2y ago
    I was 15 so I spent it all on stupid shit :P I continued this into my early 20s. Bitcoin wasn't around yet. Tons of crazy stories for sure. Captchas weren't invented yet, no one really had any rate limits on login pages, inbox spam filters were easily bypassable, trojans like sub7 were just coming around, all kinds of wild fun back then. If you wanted to make money, there nothing was really stopping you. The 90s were peak internet imo
    - sizzle 2y ago
      awesome! do you think AI is gonna change the web as we know it?
- tmpz22 2y ago
  Do you have any regrets? Given your revenue number you clearly caught a lot of marks, some of which may have been very vulnerable when you targeted them - recently widowed, mental crisis, etc. Would you do it again?
  - edm0nd 2y ago
    No real regrets besides not saving more of it I suppose. It taught me a lot and now some almost 30 years later I'm still a nerd and programming bots that make me money.

csomar 2y ago

Lawsuits are based on the probability of being able to extract and its amount; not the relevance of the claim or the morality of it. Given that Onlyfans is moving billions, it's probably only a matter of time before they start getting their share of lawsuits.

EGreg 2y ago

Hm seems one was already filed so… you’re wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879574 I was surprised the Tates were bragging in great detail about doing that years ago and no one seems to care that they defrauded men out of millions

yakshaving_jgt 2y ago
Indeed, I was 100% wrong. That’s a really interesting link. Thanks for sharing!
- EGreg 2y ago
  By the way the Tates have just the other day rugpulled many of their followers AGAIN — in a different way: https://x.com/gadget44027447/status/1860339419020231071?s=46&t=6NqVriDzUg62-oO7pw1olA https://x.com/gadget44027447/status/1860339419020231071?s=46...

edm0nd 2y ago

This. I used to spam thirsty dudes on AOL/AIM/Yahoo Chat/MSN Messenger with a chatbot with prompts to convert them to porn website sales in the 90s. I made 6 figures one year. It wasnt even AI, just if else shit and looking for keywords in their messages and then reply X or Y lol. One of my favorite quotes: Never underestimate the stupidity of a man with his dick in one hand and his wallet in the other.

sizzle 2y ago
Damn six figs in the 90’s was a lot. Please tell me you invested it in Bitcoin and are a tres commas club lol Any other crazy stories from those times? You seemed to be ahead of the curve.
- edm0nd 2y ago
  I was 15 so I spent it all on stupid shit :P I continued this into my early 20s. Bitcoin wasn't around yet. Tons of crazy stories for sure. Captchas weren't invented yet, no one really had any rate limits on login pages, inbox spam filters were easily bypassable, trojans like sub7 were just coming around, all kinds of wild fun back then. If you wanted to make money, there nothing was really stopping you. The 90s were peak internet imo
  - sizzle 2y ago
    awesome! do you think AI is gonna change the web as we know it?
tmpz22 2y ago
Do you have any regrets? Given your revenue number you clearly caught a lot of marks, some of which may have been very vulnerable when you targeted them - recently widowed, mental crisis, etc. Would you do it again?
- edm0nd 2y ago
  No real regrets besides not saving more of it I suppose. It taught me a lot and now some almost 30 years later I'm still a nerd and programming bots that make me money.