Of course since @lasseehlers refuses to give any details about how he plans to "onboard" new users all we can do is speculate and hypothesize. If he doesn't want us doing that he can give us simething more definative than what was in his proposal draft post and canon proposal post.
I am skeptical of the full hypothesis I made. Maybe he might find some new Hive users by paying them but I would expect more than half of the "new users" he would "onboard" would be sockpuppet accounts he himself would create. His proposal's budget is stated to be 20 HBD per "new user", 16 HBD to onboard and 4 HBD for his own compensation. If he onboards a "real user" he only gets 4 HBD for that new user. If he creates a sockpuppet account to "onboard" he gets the full 20 HBD. I would also suppose that "16 per new user" is more like the upper amount that he would be willing to pay. He might try to find new users to create an account that will just take something like $8 or $10 to create an account and then he would pocket the difference giving him more than $4 "compensation" for that onboarded user. If he was clever rather than pocketing the difference he could just roll the difference into his scheme and that would allow him to claim, "See? I asked for 1000 HBD to onboard 50 new 'professional bloggers' at 20 HBD each but I got 56 new onboarded users which is more than 50." Thus my McDonalds analogy in my post. Generally the lower you can pay someone the less effort that person will be willing to put into the task they are being paid for.
I am also highly skeptical of @lasseehlers' claim about not knowing that a post about LasseCash could be generated by AI by giving AI details about LasseCash. @lasseehlers vastly overestimates his intelligence but he is not stupid. @lasseehlers is being honest when he states that he checked ChatGPT months ago to see what it had to say about his token. I remember seeing him mention that in one of his video posts at the time and he felt insulted that ChatGPT didn't know about LasseCash.
@lasseehlers is far from tactful when it comes to self-promotion. His preference of promoting LasseCash is sheer brute force. I don't recall the exact words from his video but @lasseehlers said he would "get them" (OpenAI I assume) to know about LasseCash. If he pursued that and tried to find out how to get ChatGPT to "know" about LasseCash then sooner or later @lasseehlers would have found out about prompt engineering. That is why I find his claim of not knowing so dubious.
I could be wrong of course. Maybe @lasseehlers actually paid whoever @majidhussain007 is $16 for a blog post about LasseCash and @majidhussain007 was able to pass off AI generated text as something from a "professional blogger".
If you can get plutonium from Libyan terrorists by giving them an empty bomb casing full of old pinball machine parts then any kind of trade is possible I guess.
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