This website has prompted me to consider whether, during elections or product promotions, there is truly any difference between interactions generated by bots and those carried out by paid human agents. Furthermore, when evaluating ethical issues, should we perhaps place less emphasis on the question of whether the acting entity is a computer or a human, and instead focus more on whether the act itself is deceptive or manipulative?

What struck me was that back when I was in high school, there was already a girl in my class who had thousands of followers on Chinese TikTok. However, I later found out that almost all those followers, except her real-life friends, were actually just bought bots.