X is becoming pay-to-win: AI product launches boosted by large-scale bot farms
xeophon · x · 2026-10-23
Developer eliebakouch laments that X is becoming a pay-to-win platform where even well-received AI product launches run fully fake amplification campaigns.
- Looking at the main post and paid-partnership posts, most replies/reposts come from bot farms using the same accounts, making clustering easy
- Some founders (jev) used these slop agencies and it genuinely worked — converting to real usage and helping raise large rounds, which explains why people keep doing it
- He warns the platform must fix this fast or everyone will adopt it and users will leave
Screenshots of the DataVendor.ai launch show reposters with obvious bot personas and templated AI-generated replies.
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