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Hey, Food Influencers: Robots Are Coming for Your Jobs - Food & Wine
Meet the data engineer who created an automated Instagram account to earn free meals.
A Manhattan-based data scientist just pulled off the ultimate Instagram grift—he created a 100 percent automated account that hits up New York City restaurants for free meals in exchange for posts (#spon, #ad, #robotspon). The Instagram in question, @beautiful.newyorkcity, currently has over 600 posts and nearly 29,000 followers, which is pretty impressive for an influencer who doesn't actually exist.
Its creator, Chris Buetti, was inspired by aggregators like @fuckjerry, the controversial content-stealing Instagram account. “@FuckJerry is where I got the idea,” he told Buzzfeed News. “He never needs to show his face, he just posts memes he finds on the internet; mostly he just steals them...I was thinking, this guy never needs to touch [by hand] his account ever.”
Meet the data engineer who created an automated Instagram account to earn free meals.
A Manhattan-based data scientist just pulled off the ultimate Instagram grift—he created a 100 percent automated account that hits up New York City restaurants for free meals in exchange for posts (#spon, #ad, #robotspon). The Instagram in question, @beautiful.newyorkcity, currently has over 600 posts and nearly 29,000 followers, which is pretty impressive for an influencer who doesn't actually exist.
Its creator, Chris Buetti, was inspired by aggregators like @fuckjerry, the controversial content-stealing Instagram account. “@FuckJerry is where I got the idea,” he told Buzzfeed News. “He never needs to show his face, he just posts memes he finds on the internet; mostly he just steals them...I was thinking, this guy never needs to touch [by hand] his account ever.”