A photo calculates your life's destiny? When fortune-telling is covered with the cloak of artificial intelligence and goes to the development of offline money, can you still see through the fraud?
AI is more scientific than fortune tellers?
scan the QR code, enter the interface full of technology, upload a facial photo, and after decoding the software, you can generate an analysis report that says "see through you for a lifetime". It is not uncommon for WeChat public accounts, mini programs and APPs that focus on artificial intelligence to read.
fortune telling program says it is based on AI artificial intelligence and physiognomy .
A WeChat official account called "AI Face-Looking and Palm Fortune Telling Master" introduces itself on the homepage: "Based on combining AI artificial intelligence technology with computing with traditional facial science, we can create model hexagrams through facial-Looking and palmistry to predict your fortune, fortune, marriage and wealth."
Many "AI Fortune Telling" attract users for free. The reporter uploaded the photos and quickly generated an analysis report. But this report is incomplete. If you want to further understand the sub-reports of emotional careers, you need to pay additional fees. Career and emotional reports show that the prices are both 9.9 yuan, and 26,351 and 42,516 people have purchased them respectively. Based on this calculation, the profits of these two projects have been made by nearly 700,000 yuan.
unlocking requires an additional fee. Page screenshot
Can artificial intelligence really predict fate? Judging from the reporter's experience, the analysis results of the same hand uploaded photo were different, and the accuracy was obviously questionable.
A senior Internet security person told reporters, "AI fortune-telling program is actually a drawer, which contains various sentences to analyze the scores corresponding to the facial features. Each score corresponds to a different analysis. It has no technical content, just like traditional fortune-telling. AI fortune-telling is just a guise of technology, and it is not as accurate as roadside fortune-telling."
Fortune telling also "pull down the line"?
During the experience, the reporter found that the facial report can only be done once, and you must pay 4.9 yuan for extra work or invite friends to review. There are also many "AI fortune tellers" that place links to recruit agents in prominent locations.
Customer service told reporters that there are two types of project agents. One is to forward product posters with QR codes through friends circle, community, and public accounts. "What comes in is your order, and you share it with the platform." Customer service explained.
can also develop offline and get commissions. The promotion page shows that from members to partners, the payment price ranges from 9.8 to 398, and the commission ratio of subordinate users obtained also ranges from 20% to 40%.
398 yuan can enjoy a 40% commission from the lower-level users. Screenshot of the page of fortune telling program recruiting agents
At this point, the veil of "AI fortune telling" has been truly revealed: "Fortune telling" is just a gimmick, and its real purpose is to induce sharing and develop users to attract money.
In this regard, Zhou Hao, a lawyer at Beijing Weiheng Law Firm, believes that the fortune-telling procedure that was pulled down is suspected of pyramid schemes. "According to the provisions of the Regulations on the Prohibition of Pyramid Selling, organizers or operators require the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join through the development personnel. The number of personnel directly or indirectly rolling development is calculated and paid for illegal benefits (including material rewards and other economic interests) based on the number of personnel directly or indirectly rolling development, which is considered a pyramid scheme. The fortune telling program that was pulled down and the part of the profit from the offline is distributed, so there is suspicion of pyramid schemes."
"Internet + charlatan " was banned
In fact, in addition to the small-scale quarrel of opening a public account to hang up the program, divination has long become a business.
As of February this year, according to incomplete statistics from Pencil Road, there are 20 projects that have been raised in the fortune-telling track, of which 9 projects have completed the A round of financing, 2 Pre-A rounds, 5 Angel rounds, and 4 seed rounds. Among the data disclosed to the public, 9 projects have received more than 10 million yuan in financing.
Picture from Pencil Road
"Gods Club" is one of the top players, but in the past year, the "Gods Club" has encountered many discomforts such as being prosecuted and banned. I wonder if the master has calculated that it is so miserable?
In December 2018, Wangjing SOHO sued the "Goddess Bureau". In March 2019, the infringement case officially opened.The cause was on November 10, 2018, when the "Shengs Bureau" released the "Big Shui of Beijing Wangjing SOHO, the Internet "Waterloo" through its WeChat official account? 》 said that Wangjing SOHO's feng shui is too poor, and the "layout" is in line with the eight characters.
SOHO China stated on March 18 that "I believe that the law will make fair judgments and protect our customers from being affected by these feudal superstitious remarks." Pan Shiyi also reposted Weibo, saying that "I believe that fair laws will defeat the charlatan and disrupt the situation, and that science and rationality will defeat the feudal superstitious."
Pan Shiyi forwarded Wangjing SOHO to sue the "charlatan bureau" Weibo.
Tianyan Check data shows that the "Shenbangju" brand belongs to Zhuhai Shenbang Network Technology Co., Ltd., and the company was established in November 2016. Founder and CEO Yang Miaobo is known as the Feng Shui consultant of the enterprise Lin Litong . He has been specializing in the theories of Bazi Numerology, Feng Shui Geography and other 15 years. He has been a member of many associations such as the China Yijing Cultural Association and Lingnan Feng Shui Association.
reporter noticed that among the "offshore associations" and "counterfeit associations" announced by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the China Yijing Cultural Association is on the list.
data comes from Tianyancha.
From December 2016 to July 2017, in 8 months, the official account of the Shenzang Bureau has gained 350,000 fans. In September 2017, the Gods Bureau obtained an angel round investment from Yuanlian Capital and completed a Pre-A round of financing in July 2018.
But on January 18, 2019, "S Shenpu S" and another official account "S Shenpu Military Supervisor Ce" were banned. Industry insiders believe that the reason for being banned may be suspected of spreading feudal superstitious content and involving sensitive information, and being banned also put investors in an embarrassing situation.
The charlatan dances for money only for wealth
and does not stop the charlatan dances. On March 29, the charlatan Bureau registered a new account and made a comeback. What exactly attracts the charlatan to keep resurrecting?
According to previous media reports, in 2018, the two public accounts of Shenbangju and Junjice created more than 14 million yuan in revenue for the team, and their money-making ability was amazing.
The Gods Bureau has several businesses: one is personal fortune telling. Through 90-minute WeChat conversations, we can calculate the past and the future and answer questions about four directions: "career", "wealth", "emotional marriage" and "decision-making".
numerology calculation fee table.
reporter consulted customer service and found that numerology calculations are charged according to different levels of "military advisors". The highest level five-level military advisor is asked to serve as personal numerology Feng Shui consultant (including single-person comprehensive numerology, name evaluation, mobile phone number evaluation, overall feng shui layout, and unlimited single-person numerology Feng Shui questions and answer questions throughout the year) charges up to 5,999 yuan.
The second is knowledge payment. In December 2018, the Gods Bureau took advantage of the knowledge payment and started to teach "home Feng Shui classes". There were 299 classes in one class, and 7,852 people bought it in one month, and the sales of this item alone reached 2.34 million yuan.
There are also many stores on Taobao selling charlatan courses for a few yuan, and buyers have praised it. The master is also inevitably pirated.
The third is to consecrate and bring goods. Fortune-telling is nothing more than two results: one is that your fortune is good, and the other is that your fortune is bad, and you need to change your fortune. At this time, the business of the fortune teller came to light. He might also run a Taobao store selling fortune-changing talismans and bracelets. The prices of transported items range from hundreds or thousands of yuan.
Shenpuju Taobao store treasures cost hundreds to thousands of yuan.
However, although one is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten, because fortune telling itself is a fiction, some lawyers said that selling "consecrated treasures" to change fortunes is suspected of fraud.
" Article 266 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that the crime of fraud refers to the act of defrauding a large amount of public and private property for the purpose of illegal possession or concealing the truth. Online fortune-telling allows others to purchase "consecrate treasures" through such fictitious facts, which is suspected of fraud crimes." Zhou Hong, a lawyer at Henan Liangcheng Law Firm, told reporters.
In the final analysis, fortune tellers take advantage of people's fear and anxiety about the unknown, while "AI fortune telling" is a trend of the Internet. It is just a magician of the Internet, which is no more than the science of setting up stalls on the street. The so-called Feng Shui genius is doing an anxious business.
At the moment when supervision is gradually tightening and people are becoming more rational, masters might as well tell a fortune teller for themselves and see how long can fortune telling tricks be played.
(Source: China News Network)
