Bots clicking on ML optimised headlines collecting money from ad networks optimised by machine learning, which serve ads a/b tested to perfection by algorithms, economy 2.0 right there. As long as they're for products made by robot, paid for by investment capital allocated by algorithms...
It's basically the ice cream cone that licks itself.
Soon automated readers will outnumber real readers of the automated writers.
You laugh, but... let's take the personal act of wishing someone happy birthday.
Before Facebook, you showed you remembered by calling.
Then facebook reminded you and you went to their profile wrote on their wall, where you saw tons of other short wishes like "all the best".
Then facebook made a little area where you don't even have to go to their wall, and you can just do all your "happy birthday" wishes in one go.
Then there are apps that let you automatically wish happy birthday to people.
A little further in the future:
Now people are complaining they are getting too many "personal", "heartfelt" happy birthday messages from people they barely know so they ask an algorithm to sift through them and summarize them.
Now we have bots reading happy birthday wishes from other bots.
A few years ago we built this at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon to prove this point:
