A developer has published techniques for automating Instagram engagement using computer vision to scale interactions. The experiment, as the title promises, ends with an account ban—demonstrating both the technical feasibility of such automation and Instagram's active enforcement against it. According to Hacker News, where the post circulated, it serves as a case study in why social platforms actively monitor for and shut down bot behavior.

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