Unfortunately the article is paywalled. Are there any pictures in the article I want to see how realistic the AI girl is because most AI images are pretty obvious so I want to see how dumb these dumb men are.
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They grifted the grifters!!!
Really they gifted the gifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.
Given what I assume is a typo, I don't know which way to take what you wrote. On the one hand, I agree they grifted the grifted. On the other hand, they could potentially be considered gifted. Gifted enough to understand that using AI this way could allow them to grift people probe to being grifted. Of course. If I take it that way I have to assume the second "gifted" is meant in a derogatory way to call them dumb.
I thought about this way too much.
Hey! I wasn't grifted and I'm super dumb. What's going on?!
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Pretty much sums up the whole political timeline we live in.
That makes sense though. There is a strong correlation between education and tendency towards liberal attitudes.
More intelligent people are more likely to be exposed to more worldviews and therefore more likely to be more accommodating of other worldviews. Whereas people who were educated in schools that don't make a huge distinction between religion and science tend to assume they know more about the world when they actually do, therefore they are more likely to believe the lies right-wing grifters.
It's also why MAGAs are so obsessed with wearing their baseball caps, they're so dumb they treat politics as a sport.
Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?
Shopify commercials tell me they're all I need to make a business.
I used to work in web development and I cannot tell you how much I detest Shopify and its incredibly outdated scripting language. It's an awful product to work with. Customers used to come in with their Shopify site which they now outgrown and wanted it upgraded, and it was always easier and therefore cheaper to just throw the entire mess away and start again from scratch.
So seriously if you want to do well in business don't start with a Shopify site, just get something custom from the start, it'll end up cheaper in the long run.
This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.
That's why constitutional republics were created. It's supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.
The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
These is a fairly daft bit about everyone having guns that needs removing. You can get on that.
That law was added when guns were so imprecise it was difficult to hit the broadside of a barn from inside the barn. It wasn't designed for guns with fire rates in excess of one round every 5 minutes. Back then if somebody went on a shooting spree you could just walk up to them and punch them while they were in the middle of reloading.
Actually, the last time the Constitution was amended was in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights amendment. But, of course, conservative ciquanery kept it off.
ciquanery
ciquanery
I tried googling it!
Congrats, young man, to having found a good way to do the world a service, all while making a fortune.
Every cent those idiots spend on fake girls can't be spent in GOP donation jars.
Stupid audience and rage bait content makes social media push your stuff.
Lately, he says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”)
lmao, they remove it when they find it, they're not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they're actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
It would be a pretty easy thing to write a bot to search this stuff.
You could start off with the keyword search. It would be interesting to watch these guys try and come up with pseudonyms. What's their version of unalive?
Pearl Jam saw the fucking thing coming.
lmao, they remove it when they *find* it, they're not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they're actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Yeah, I don't use IG but my wife has reported explicitly nazi glorification content before but because the account would say "for historical purposes only", they just say they didn't find anything wrong with the posts. Fuck Meta
I've reported a lot of obvious (but not overt) neonazi content on meta and it almost never gets taken down. Maaaaybe 5% on the high end. It has to be extremely overt to register. Obvious dog whistles like "the Austrian leader was right," using emojis like 👃, or 🧃 to make hate speech against Jews, 🐵 for African Americans, etc. slides right by.
To Meta’s credit, however, emily_hart.nurse’s life on Instagram was relatively brief. In February, Emily’s account was officially banned after Instagram flagged it for “fraudulent” activity, though her Facebook account is still active.
Another piece of circumstantial evidence that Meta is just ugh.
Cause they were scamming Nazis, if it would have been an account scamming old people they would have kept it.
Blind people are the only ones left that should consider doing image moderation for meta. The rest of their former workforce is too traumatized. No audio though please, that shit is gross.
Hey, they'd have to pay a person in the third world $5 a year to do that, do you think they're made of money?
I should come up with a "scam MAGA" business model. Damn ethics...
One could argue removing financial power from people who would use it to harm those around them is the ethical choice. Obviously, it would be more beneficial to scam the wealthy, but scamming those who give to the wealthy that would harm others could be framed as pre-empting that gift.
If I'm using an AI to scam Nazis is that still ethical, or is the AI usage still problematic?
Tell ya what. I'LL do all the shady stuff. You just provide the capitol. Just give me $50 million dollars, and I'll scam the idiots FOR you!
Money please! Money me now!
Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money, needing a lot now
Trump already does it successfully
Milton Friedman's grandson did something similar 10 years ago by scamming libertarians that wanted in on "ocean cities"
On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.
On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake 'news' sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that's what they focused on.
Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation's influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.
I agree somewhat but it's not like they were bringing newcomers into the cause, this account was posting rage bait for already entrenched MAGAts, the more time they spend inside staring at fake boobs the less time they'll spend shooting people
They can do both, you know. They love nothing more than cringe content and "righteous" violence.
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Anything to separate conservatives from their money so they can't use it to support fascism.
They're already religious, it's a short hop from there
I laughed so fucking hard at this quote. It’s perfect.
Whether it's plausible that a sexy blonde nurse would love Christ, ICE, and flashing her boobs for strangers is secondary to the fact that many, many people want to believe it is.
That's such a well written burn.
I'm torn. On the one hand this is like the third useful thing I've read that so-called AI can do. If the tech can only be used to help folks with disabilities, help medical research and diagnoses, and defraud MAGAs, I'd stop being so mad about it. On the other hand, idiots aren't only available in that sociopolitical group and the affluent princes of Nigeria locked in unfortunate inheritance lawsuits are surely planning a surprising comeback with this tech.
I'd question the success that "millions of followers" implies. I think the majority of people who follow such a profile on Insta will know it's fake. Maybe not initially but they will figure this out. There is s tendency for people on the left side of the political spectrum to scratch each other's eyes out over narcissisms of minor differences. On the opposing side, people are more likely to stick together no matter what. We are about ten years in to the MAGA movement and we are just now seeing worrying cracks in an otherwise often comically unified great leader facade. So even if a user figured out this boob flashing nurse is fake, they won't unfollow because the ends justify the means to spread the message. And continuing to follow is not an indication of abject stupidity but another win in the column of owning the libtards for them. And even among the paying morons on the OnlyFans knock-off, there will be users who know this is fake but our Indian medical student is scratching their itch. People jack it to anime as well. People want to marry the Eiffel Tower.
And they didn’t even get a cabinet position? Pfft, amateur…
This is truly heartwarming, more people should treat these munters like an ATM.
That read was great for the soul.
Only proving that their is a market for this and supply will always come to meet demand eventually
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