X's newest cash crop: fake courtroom dramas written by robots
Scroll X long enough and you'll hit one: a wrongfully accused mom, a kid busting in with a backpack full of evidence, justice served in 280 characters. Wired traced these viral "melodramas" back to AI generators and found the real twist, X's Creator Revenue Sharing program actually pays out for them, since payouts hinge on impressions, not truth. X has sued Vietnamese creators for bot-boosted fraud and yanked aggregator payouts, but the fake-first-person sob story genre keeps racking up millions of views, and checks, unchecked.
Nothing says "authentic content" like a sobbing AI narrator and a nine-year-old plot twist nobody asked for.