I Investigated the AI Astrology Business
Faladdin sells a million coffee-cup readings a day out of Istanbul at about 90% margin. The buyer rates the reading on how they felt when it ended, so a model that never met them can do the job. The business that survives the regulators is the one that says on the page what the reading is.
Featuring: Faladdin, AstroSage, Nebula, Astrotalk, Co-Star, FTC
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Chapters:
(00:00) Sertaç Taşdelen learns to read coffee cups from his mother
(01:44) A million readings a day, ahead of Tinder in Turkey
(02:09) AstroSage rates its AI above its 700,000 human astrologers
(02:40) Turkish police, a 1925 statute and the seized accounts
(03:17) The FTC freezes Nebula over a $45 renewal
(03:38) Why the category grades itself on stars
(04:14) What the version that survives says on the page
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