Gotta love how genai's main use is scamming people. Revolutionary tech just like crypto, which totally superseded banking and isn't running on a pyramid of grifts.
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For ilicit dealings crypto absolutely superseeded previous payment methods. Not to mention the adoption of cryptocurrencies in Venezuela due to runaway inflation of the national currency.
Yes, crypto scams exists. But cryptocurrency is the closest we have to a decentralized currency that can be transfered around the world without anyone being able to dictate who you can send money to.
The reason he's a "scammer" is his lack of connection. Put him in a corporation or in government and he'd just be on task to increase profits.
There's a guy in the whitehouse in the us that does this, and they call him 'mr president'. At least to his face, at any rate.
The Cheeto-in-Chief is more a flabby senile economically illiterate pedophile rapist who has trouble rolling out of his own golf cart to cheat on camera while his sycophants tell him how skilled he is.
I absolutely approve.
I would do it, too, if I could get over the squick of even dealing with them in the first place.
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.
Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?
Affirm their biases with the face of a pretty young blonde woman
I'll sell you my how-to guide for £99.99
Okay, send me the login details for your checking account and I'll post the money directly to your account.
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Password same, thanks.
If you find something and go "nobody could possibly fall for that!" then you've found your MAGA grift.
One that looks pretty promising is the "5G blocker" market. There already are some that are basically a USB powered LED in a housing to make it look like a flash drive.
You can differentiate your "product" by giving it a Tacticool look and/or name. Slap a plastic housing on that with an urban camo print and call it "The 5G Afflictor" or something, and you can probably get some money from some morons.
If you use careful wording, you can keep it totally factual, too. It may not block 5G signals, but everyone that buys one does suffer no further ill effects from 5G, for example.
Everything you need to know is in the article.
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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.
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.
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Crime seems so easy
To think I'm here, working my ass off and still broke, when I could be swimming in "These pills will grow your dick by 3 inches" money
Entrepreneurship in action, right MAGAs? Buyer beware and all that.
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.
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.
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Pearl Jam saw the fucking thing coming.
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Most of those people probably bought Trump coins with their savings too
They're all still waiting for their Tr*mp phones to arrive from Ghina.
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.
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They grifted the grifters!!!
Really they grifted the grifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.
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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.
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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.
There you go (article in spanish) https://www.sinembargo.mx/4794809/joven-crea-influencer-con-ia-y-gana-miles-de-dolares-enganando-seguidores-maga/
Oh it's her. This isn't a new story this has been around for ages.
I love the one of her in the military uniform, her name plate literally says US ARMY, how dumb are these guys?
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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.
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.
this reminds me of this one black guy that scammed 30k from the maga crowed. i saw his tiktok about it.
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.
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