> YouTube, Facebook etc. have an interest in keeping real humans on their platforms and not just bots. They want a human audience, but I suspect they are fine

> YouTube, Facebook etc. have an interest in keeping real humans on their platforms and not just bots. They want a human audience, but I suspect they are fine with bot creators and are probably working on that themselves. Ever notice all those channels on YouTube and Spotify that are hours and hours of lofi music? They aren’t all human and some of them have big audiences. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/ https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...