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@CalvinAndHobo said:

@Itsfine said:
When guys making $800,000 are rigging outcomes for $1400, you'll never stop it.

Agree that you won't stop it, but it's just getting caught more now. It's always been happening and will always continue to happen, regardless of betting or prop betting being legalized or not. It is a shame they couldn't have tipped me off first though.

Understand that it's getting caught. That's a good thing! The scary thing is that someone would be willing to sacrifice 800 grand or 4.9 mil for 1,400 bucks or $7,000 or whatever.

While I appreciate the take that it has always gone on and now it's just getting caught, poor people in the Dominican Republic have never been able to take the under on miles per hour for an opening pitch in the 9th inning because street bookies were not taking that action, and they definitely weren't giving a Plus vig and allowing parlays on the same action.

That's where these online bookies are different. They are legal and accessible to every single person in the world, more or less if street guys are going to take mph action, you're right. We'll never stop it. But then I think sports end. The online guys are regulated. All it takes is one politician in the State of the Union address to complain about his brother's best friend's neighbors who lost 18 bucks on a Clase pitch prop, and the next thing you know there will be a hundred Blue ribbon panels and a senate subcommittee to investigate online gambling. That will be the beginning of the end in my opinion.

Like you said, the flip side is that the online bookies and the brick and mortars help get these guys caught. But it appears that you can only get caught after the fact. Even in this Cleveland game, the two pitchers were put on leave right after a game in which they made bets or facilitated bets. That is to say, after the game is over. That's not going to be good enough for the American public, in my opinion.

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I have been seeing more of this and I am not impressed or interested in it but it seems to be a very hot thing right now. Unimpressed because the visuals take no skill but can fool some of the people some of the time and, the comedy is just weak and that makes me want to disengage from them. I wish they would be clearer about labeling which ones are fake videos. I wish the platforms would allow me to block AI content.

Having said that I remember some that I actually enjoyed but the comedy was stronger and the AI was weaker on purpose sort of tongue in cheek.