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Hey, Food Influencers: Robots Are Coming for Your Jobs
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 962" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/food-influencer-instagram-robot" target="_blank"><strong>Hey, Food Influencers: Robots Are Coming for Your Jobs - Food & Wine</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Meet the data engineer who created an automated Instagram account to earn free meals. </strong> </p><p></p><p>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 <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/news/questions-food-instagram-influencers-answered" target="_blank">Instagram</a> in question, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beautiful.newyorkcity/" target="_blank">@beautiful.newyorkcity</a>, currently has over 600 posts and nearly 29,000 followers, which is pretty impressive for an influencer who doesn't actually exist.</p><p></p><p>Its creator, Chris Buetti, was inspired by aggregators like @fuckjerry, the controversial content-stealing Instagram account. “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/fuckjerry/" target="_blank">@FuckJerry</a> is where I got the idea,” he <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals" target="_blank">told</a> 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.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 962, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.foodandwine.com/food-influencer-instagram-robot'][B]Hey, Food Influencers: Robots Are Coming for Your Jobs - Food & Wine[/B][/URL] [B]Meet the data engineer who created an automated Instagram account to earn free meals. [/B] 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 [URL='https://www.foodandwine.com/news/questions-food-instagram-influencers-answered']Instagram[/URL] in question, [URL='https://www.instagram.com/beautiful.newyorkcity/']@beautiful.newyorkcity[/URL], 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. “[URL='https://www.instagram.com/fuckjerry/']@FuckJerry[/URL] is where I got the idea,” he [URL='https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals']told[/URL] 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.” [/QUOTE]
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