Best use of OpenClaw
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Fake as fuck.
Setting aside the implication that selling a 3 bedroom house apparently makes you a boomer and therefore a bad person, this guy is also openly admitting to illegal activity. Mass texting people using AI is a violation of robocall laws, so if this is real then he could be looking at $500-$1500 fine for each text message sent.
Nowhere in this image does it say he was texting people. Zillow has a mechanism for making offers.
People listing their homes on those platforms are soliciting contact and offers. "Text me with an offer" means it's not a "telephonic sales call."
Even if neither of those were true
Offering to PURCHASE something for sale doesn't count as a robocall under the Florida definition.
Yes, I think it's likely fake too, but if it were real:
Zillow messaging doesn't have a public API that OpenClaw can hook into, so it's unlikely that OpenClaw would be able to take advantage of Zillow's messaging system in that way. In order to do something like this, he would likely have to seek out listings where the owner themselves gave their contact info. If he did use Zillow for this somehow, then that would at the very least be a violation of their ToS and could make for a civil case. Since he said he's doing this to make people "panic", then that could be used to make a case for harassment.
They are giving consent for offers, but not for automated messaging, which is a different category of consent. Using AI to send messages would constitute automated messaging.
While that is true that the law generally applies to businesses offering to sell services, automated messaging for making offers on real estate can potentially be interpreted as commercial solicitation under TCPA.
I'm no lawyer, but the federal TCPA's wording is similar.
I guess you could try to stretch it to say you're encouraging them to facilitate his purchase of property, but that doesn't seem to be the intent IMHO. Maybe you could make an argument that he's advertising that currency is a good that's available to them?
If someone wanted to go after him, and he did use the phone system. Maybe obscene/harassing call statutes work better.
Like you say, his self-professed intent is causing panic.
It's Florida. There is a basic rule of enforceability. If they don't think they can enforce it, they don't. I was shocked how much if anything here doesn't actually exist and is just some kind of scam.
Illegal? Sure. Will it be enforced? How?
I suppose if this guy lived outside the U.S., or used a burner number and concealed his identity, then they wouldn't be able to enforce it, but otherwise LE could just get the records from the phone provider or Zillow.
Overwhelmingly? Yes.
Boomers don't own 3 bedroom houses, they own 4 or 5 bedrooms minimum.
Particularly rich millennials own 2-3 bedrooms.
Chaotic good.
Pardon me, but what is this "openclaw" and can it really contact the police?
It's a tool for the incredibly ill-advised idea of giving an AI endpoints where it can execute scripts and commands directly, use a web browser by itself, etc. So sure, it could theoretically go to https://tampapd.mycasenumber.us/ and fill in a police report without asking you first. Conceivably being a false report and leading to up to a year in prison.
just give them root access to your computer... but yeah, basically.
Based If True.
is this even feasible?
If Zillow had phone numbers