Investors Paid $16M to Destroy the Internet with Fakes

Which brings us to maybe the most cynical part of this whole analysis, the market actually

rewarding fakery. There's this one company, Arcads. Can you help me

understand this? Arcads is the perfect, if depressing, example of how broken the market is right

now. They raised $16 million. 16 million? By explicitly pitching

a model to, quote, "Burn the entire user-generated content industry to the

ground using AI influencers." So wait. Their pitch to VCs was,

"We can make sake people reviewing fake products faster and cheaper than real people."

That's the core of it. Maximize monetization, eliminate trust. And they got $16