Fake User Accounts
Comments revolve around creating, using, detecting, and debating fake user accounts and data to inflate metrics, pollute data collection, enable testing, or deceive algorithms and services.
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Better would be a code which reveals a convincing fake account/data.
It's probably making it up. I scrubbed the PII vs a list of fake names and info.
It would be fun if there were a service to create false profiles to pollute the data miners of this world.
Why couldn't they create fake accounts?
Well this fake account will grow with fake data untill it's a pretty real account, right?
Who is making the fake info generator for all of these?
I don't think that would work, the stories said they generated fake data. There would be users presumably.
This is why you should always use fake data when registering somewhere.
It's easier to fake users than to attract real users.
am i the only one who cringes at the thought of faking users?