Post view counter start with random number

Hi there,

we are looking to start the post view counter with a random number.
We found a code example like this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37620332/change-the-count-of-post-views-in-fuction-by-random-number

// function to count views.
function setPostViews_anthemes($postID) {
$count_key = ‘post_views_count’;
$count = rand(1,999);
update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
}

How would we have to tweak this in order to hook with the newspaper posts

Thanks for your help