A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1502·
    21 days ago

    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.

    • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
      55·
      21 days ago

      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.

      • VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        21 days ago

        Cause they were scamming Nazis, if it would have been an account scamming old people they would have kept it.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        21 days ago

        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.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      21 days ago

      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.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      21 days ago

      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

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      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?

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      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?

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Every “debate” “free speech” group on Facebook eventually devolved to a Nazi hangout and kicked me out for being too left wing. Everything left wing group got sucked.

      It’s a shithole unfortunately

  • PineRune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    21 days ago

    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.

    • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      21 days ago

      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.

      • Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        21 days ago

        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.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        35·
        21 days ago

        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.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball-sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbor’s dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot, “Tally ho lads” the grapeshot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      21 days ago

      Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          7·
          21 days ago

          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.

      • PineRune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        If you find something and go “nobody could possibly fall for that!” then you’ve found your MAGA grift.

      • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        You could run for office as a republican, they have teams of support people that will coach and help you hone your craft.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            21 days ago

            yeah but you don’t end up scamming senile old ladies who chose the wrong political party 60 years ago and have no idea what republicans have been doing the last fifteen years or really any of what has happened the last fifteen years but really don’t deserve to be made homeless for the crime of getting dementia.

            • magnetosphere@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              20 days ago

              People who don’t even try to stay informed help maintain an America where it’s possible to be made homeless for the “crime of getting dementia”. Being bankrupted by medical debt isn’t normal in most other countries. The American right wing’s willful ignorance is bad for the entire planet. Countless individuals suffer because of their laziness and greed.

              We owe them nothing.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      8·
      21 days ago

      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.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    78·
    21 days ago

    I should come up with a “scam MAGA” business model. Damn ethics…

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    21 days ago

    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.

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
    43·
    21 days ago

    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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    21 days ago

    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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    21 days ago

    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.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      21 days ago

      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

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        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 prone 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.

        • KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          Yes that was a typo thank you.

          The individuals exploited by this attack had already been influenced by prior messaging that relied on fear, misinformation, and manipulative tactics. This made them more vulnerable to being targeted again by unrelated scammers who look for the same types of susceptible individuals.

          In this situation, the people affected are not directly attempting to deceive anyone themselves — they are victims of two separate schemes that both exploit the same vulnerabilities.

          I don’t feel sympathy for them, because the hostility and resentment they embraced played a major role in making them vulnerable to this situation. Their own engagement with harmful narratives set the stage for how they ended up being exploited.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    21 days ago

    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.