A pretty good litmus test is “do I have the urge to comment on this even though what was said has no real life effect on me?”
Congrats you’ve been baited
early 2000s there was a famous infomercial get rich program for $80 to discover how to make millions buying classified ads in the newspaper.
The secret? You buy classified adds telling people they could make millions buying classified ads
That’s high ticket sales
In the past 5 minutes I read about:
A claim of AI OF model making bank that clearly doesn’t know how OF works
Tax advice that will get you 100% audited guaranteed
A post about an AI agent opening a Wyoming LLC with a SubGPT understanding of what that actually entails
Lies.
When you know a lot of stuff about a lot of things you realize that 95% of the stuff you’re exposed to is human slop gaslighting for engagement and conversions
Marketing has just become the art of who can deceive their audience most effectively