Another episode in the series of exploitation of the vulnerable. Prior art: gambling in the pocket, crypto get rich schemes, candy crush in-app purchases. This seems like an adaptation of OnlyFans, artificial and automated.
Would be nice if we could stop taking advantage of others weaknesses.
What does it mean to have a weakness for purchasing T-shirts that read ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”? That's not predatory; they're paying money for a t-shirt and (presumably) receiving said t-shirt.
Or for their Fanvue account, they're paying money to receive soft-core pornography, and they are receiving soft-core pornography.
This isn't a scam—they're paying money for a thing, and are receiving that thing. I could say "well, that's not a great thing to be spending money on", and it's not, but I don't think of sellers of off-color t-shirts as something that people need to be protected from.
There are literally thousands of AI thirst trap accounts on IG. I have to admit, I have clicked on some of them when they've popped up in my feed, and I've been fooled a couple of times...as in, I couldn't spot them being AI. Usually I'm pretty good at spotting AI, so I'm not sure what models are being used to make those clips.
These accounts have 10-20 vids, a link to the usual sites, and hundreds / thousands of comments from other bots and thirsty geezers.
Thought this was going to be about “Jessica Foster” but it was about another one they traced to source. It reads like bad satire, it’s so on the nose about how AI enabled all of the creation process and lax enforcement of rules on social media allow anything to flourish for a while.
> Sam says he presented Gemini with a few possible options to help his model stand out, and the chatbot selected one in particular: the “MAGA/conservative niche,” referring to it as a “cheat code.” Plus, it said, “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.
I used to know a guy 15 years ago whose whole career was this, except he had real female friends he'd pay for videos and photos (safe for work, no nudity) to bump up the realism. It's shockingly easy. I wonder how he's doing in this AI age.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 30.3 ms ] threadWould be nice if we could stop taking advantage of others weaknesses.
What does it mean to have a weakness for purchasing T-shirts that read ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”? That's not predatory; they're paying money for a t-shirt and (presumably) receiving said t-shirt.
Or for their Fanvue account, they're paying money to receive soft-core pornography, and they are receiving soft-core pornography.
This isn't a scam—they're paying money for a thing, and are receiving that thing. I could say "well, that's not a great thing to be spending money on", and it's not, but I don't think of sellers of off-color t-shirts as something that people need to be protected from.
These accounts have 10-20 vids, a link to the usual sites, and hundreds / thousands of comments from other bots and thirsty geezers.
Reminds me of: https://maxread.substack.com/p/predictions-markets-and-the-s...
We can say this in a less-judgmental way: everyone has known since the 60s what it means to target that list.