It is a fact universally acknowledged, that a single social platform in possession of a good amount of users, must be in want of a barrage of bots inflating people’s metrics. Such was the case for MySpace, YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook and Twitter, and now for Twitch too. “We at Twitch are well aware that view-bots, follow-bots, and chat-impersonation bots are a persistent frustration,” wrote SVP of marketing Matthew DiPietro in a blog post announcing plans to sue seven of the most active sellers of these services. “Exploited by a small minority, these services have created a very real problem that has damaging effects across our entire community.” The issue: some Twitch broadcasters are trying to inflate their apparent view count, follower count or chat activity on their channels. As other platforms have done before it, Twitch is trying to convince users that it’s a bad idea to use these services. “Using viewbots hurts anyone using them on their own channel or found to be using them against other channels, as well as the Twitch community at large…”
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In the year or so since its launch, AI startup Kaiber has been making waves,…