Companies like Reddit deceive their users and use fake content and fake users, including bots to avoid their community from being a ghost town at the early stage. Startups design fake checkout pages that lead to a dead end to gauge interest in a product or service.
Products like Tinder using fake profiles to lure men for the tipping point (network effects).
Artificial replies to messages such as email templates.
Using fake job ads that are never intended to be filled.
Post-AI Altruheuristics
Biases
Confirmation Bias
Conformity Bias
Mere-exposure Effect
Framing Bias
Affinity Bias
Biology
Exclusion: Provides a fake sense of being a part of a community.
Trust: Loss of trust from impersonation.
CBT Distortions
None.
Circ's Principles
Champion: Don't be a hypocrite, use the product you build.
Warmness: Avoid the cold start problem with the fake start solution.
Transparency: Reduce anxiety by removing uncertainty and explaining algorithm updates.
Mental Health
None.
Pre-AI Heuristics
Dark Patterns
None.
Gestalt
None.
Graphic Design
None.
Don Norman Principles
None.
Jakob Nielson Principles
MatchRealWorld: Lack of transparency is considered to be a form of deception.
