Meta's Manus AI runs ads promoting get-rich-quick schemes using AI website building
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Robert Hart
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Summary
Meta's acquired AI company Manus is running advertising campaigns promoting get-rich-quick schemes using AI tools. The ads target people looking for side hustles, suggesting they use AI to build websites for local businesses and sell them. Manus paid content creators to build social media accounts promoting this as an easy lucrative gig, though some accounts were taken down after media inquiry. The article exposes questionable marketing tactics by Meta/Manus that encourage unrealistic income expectations through AI automation.
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Manus was paying content creators to build out Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts that promote its AI product as an easy, lucrative gig.
The creators' TikTok accounts were taken down after The Verge inquired about them.
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