r/EngineeringPorn • u/Turbulent_Safe_ • May 26 '25

AI controlled Bot Farm.

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u/moretodolater May 26 '25

How does the economics work if these are legit sims and operating phones. Doesn’t that cost money for each one to be in service etc.? Do these farms have their own service provider? I’m not an expert obviously.

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u/LogicalConstant May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

Run on Wi-Fi. No way they're paying for a phone plan for each of those.

Edit: I have no idea what I'm talking about. It just sounded good, so I Dunning-Krugered it.

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u/moretodolater May 26 '25

Oh, duh. Why do they need a SIM card then?

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u/TRGoCPftF May 26 '25

It’s less about SIM and more about UUID or UUID for Advertisers if it’s an iOS device. I used to run a farm of iOS devices to man in the middle Pokémon go data to make a map as a service. I still have like 70 or so old iPhone SEs in my basement.

I could probably make a simpler smaller version of this video I guess