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Florida man says his wife ‘wants a divorce’ after he lost $45,000 on an AI-generated Elon Musk car scam (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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George Hendricks, a 69-year-old from Leesburg, a suburb of Orlando, told ClickOrlando he lost $45,000 after a scammer targeted him with a deepfake video of Musk. Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos often used to impersonate notable public figures.

Now, Hendricks tells the outlet that his wife “wants to get a divorce” over the scam.

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[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (31 children)

He’s an idiot…but his wife is also likely a gold digger?

…but at the same time he’s old and shouldn’t be expected to be tech savvy. I’m always worried about the viral nonsense my elderly mom falls for. If mom didn’t have a son like me drilling it into her head that everything is fake…theydve got her money by now.

What don’t understand is why isn’t social media fucking complicit for allowable these ads? Back in the 80s you couldn’t tell a white lie in a TV commercial or else you’d get fined…but YouTube and Facebook aren’t even required to have actual people checking the ads people post on their site?

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pfft, I would divorce my husband if he fell for a Musk grift, and it has nothing to do with gold digging. It would, however, mean that my husband kept hidden for a long time (which is impressive, I gotta say) just how big of a fucking moron he is and I won't be married to that. And he should be avoiding anything to do with Musk like the plague anyway.

Also, it would mean that he made the decision to throw away a bunch of money without even talking to me about it (because I would veto the hell out of it), which means he's an asshole.

Both good reasons to divorce someone imo.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But would you marry an idiot in the first place?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seriously? Idiots do very well with women.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s true.

But could it be that idiot men do well with idiot women?

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No, that's why I said it would be impressive to hide it this long. :p

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